Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 53
He could no longer see the betrothed couple, nor the cheerful old people; but for a long time he could hear them rejoicing and singing.
Who acts: water, people · What happens: see, betroth, hear, rejoice, sing · To what, where: betrothed couple · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (water, people), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 couple | det |
| 7 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 couple | amod |
| 8 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 people | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 12 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 couple | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 hear | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 hear | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hear | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hear | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hear | aux |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rejoicing | nsubj |
| 25 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 hear | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 singing | cc |
| 27 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 rejoicing | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | water | the betrothed couple the cheerful old people | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer couple=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | betroth | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hear | could | water | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | rejoice | gerund | people | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | people not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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