Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 26

All these tones of joy and song in the bottle were like the working of a young poet's brain, who often knows not the meaning of the tones which are sounding within him.

Who acts: tones, working · What happens: be, not know, sound, intonate, mean · To what, where: meaning, joy, bottle, tones

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tones, working), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 tones	det:predet
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 tones	det
3	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 working	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 joy	case
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tones	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 song	cc
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joy	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bottle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tones	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 working	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 working	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 working	det
14	working	working	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	20 brain	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 poet	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 poet	amod
18	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brain	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 poet	case
20	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 working	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knows	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knows	nsubj
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 knows	advmod
24	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 working	parataxis
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 knows	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 meaning	det
27	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knows	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 tones	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tones	det
30	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 meaning	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sounding	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sounding	aux
33	sounding	sound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 tones	acl:relcl
34	within	within	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sounding	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 working	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all tones of joy and song in the bottle			like the working; of a young poet's brain	tree rules
2	not know	present	the working	the meaning of the tones		often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus
3	sound	present · progressive	the tones			within water	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	intonate			joy and song	the bottle		nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place
5	mean			the tones			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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