Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 224

Voices, soft and lovely as his mother's sounded in his ears, as if she were singing to him, "My child, my beloved child."

Who acts: mother · What happens: sound, sing · To what, where: ears, child, voice

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 (mother), 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	Voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soft	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 soft	punct
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lovely	cc
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soft	conj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 sounded	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sounded	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mother	case
10	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 soft	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ears	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sounded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 singing	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 singing	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 singing	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 singing	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 singing	aux
19	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sounded	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 singing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 child	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 child	punct
24	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 child	nmod:poss
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 singing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 child	punct
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 child	nmod:poss
28	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 child	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 soft	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 soft	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	participle				voice's ears			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	mother	My child and my beloved child	voice				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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