Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 25

The performer had produced from his instrument a richness of tone that sometimes sounded like tinkling waterdrops or rolling pearls; sometimes like the birds twittering in chorus, and then rising and swelling in sound like the wind through the fir-trees.

Who acts: tone, birds · What happens: produce, sound, tinkle, roll, twitter, rise · To what, where: performer, instrument, waterdrops, pearls, chorus

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tone, birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 performer	det
2	performer	performer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 produced	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 produced	aux
4	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 instrument	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 instrument	nmod:poss
7	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 produced	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 richness	det
9	richness	richness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 instrument	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 tone	case
11	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 richness	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sounded	nsubj
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 sounded	advmod
14	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tone	acl:relcl
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 tinkling	mark
16	tinkling	tinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sounded	advcl
17	waterdrops	waterdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tinkling	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 rolling	cc
19	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tinkling	conj
20	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolling	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 birds	punct
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 birds	advmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 birds	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 birds	det
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sounded	obl
26	twittering	twitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 birds	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 chorus	case
28	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 twittering	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rising	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rising	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 rising	advmod
32	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 twittering	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 swelling	cc
34	swelling	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 twittering	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 sound	case
36	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swelling	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	39 wind	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wind	det
39	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swelling	obl
40	through	through	ADP	_	44 trees	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trees	det
42	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 trees	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 fir	punct
44	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 swelling	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 produced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	past · perfect · passive		the performer	poet's instrument			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from instrument=Material
2	sound	past	tone				like the birds; sometimes property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	tinkle	gerund	tone not said here	waterdrops				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location waterdrop=Theme
4	roll	gerund	tone not said here	pearls				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme
5	twitter	gerund	the birds not said here		chorus			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rise	gerund	the birds not said here			then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	swell	gerund	the birds not said here				like the wind; through the fir trees; in sound	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sound=Attribute

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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