Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 103

They cried, 'Many thanks, my fatherly benefactor;' but I am sure the words did not come from their hearts, so I rang the bells till they sounded, 'ding, ding-dong.'"

Who acts: canes, I, words · What happens: cry, be, not come, ring, sound · To what, where: Many thanks, hearts, bells, ding

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (canes, I, words), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
5	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thanks	amod
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 cried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 benefactor	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 benefactor	nmod:poss
9	fatherly	fatherly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 benefactor	amod
10	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thanks	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sure	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sure	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	cop
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cried	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 words	det
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	ccomp
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 hearts	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hearts	nmod:poss
24	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rang	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 rang	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 rang	nsubj
28	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bells	det
30	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rang	obj
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 sounded	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sounded	nsubj
33	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rang	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ding	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 ding	punct
36	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sounded	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dong	punct
38	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dong	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 ding	punct
40	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ding	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 rang	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 rang	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	canes = cane	Many thanks and my fatherly benefactor			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
3	not come	past · do-support	the words		canes's hearts		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heart=Initial_Location
4	ring	past	I	the bells			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
5	sound	past	canes = cane	ding and ding dong			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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