Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 29

Even the violin and the bow appeared to perform independently of their master who guided them; it was as if soul and spirit had been breathed into the instrument, so the audience forgot the performer in the beautiful sounds he produced.

Who acts: violin, master, audience · What happens: appear, perform, guide, breathe, forget, produce · To what, where: violin, bow, instrument, performer, beautiful sounds

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 (violin, master, audience), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 violin	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 violin	det
3	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bow	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bow	det
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 violin	conj
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 perform	mark
9	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 appeared	xcomp
10	independently	independently	ADV	_	9 perform	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 master	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 master	nmod:poss
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perform	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 guided	nsubj
15	guided	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 master	acl:relcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 guided	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 breathed	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 breathed	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 breathed	aux:pass
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 breathed	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 breathed	mark
22	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 breathed	nsubj:pass
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spirit	cc
24	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 soul	conj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 breathed	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 breathed	aux:pass
27	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 appeared	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 instrument	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 instrument	det
30	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 breathed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 forgot	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	35 forgot	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 audience	det
34	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 forgot	nsubj
35	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 appeared	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 performer	det
37	performer	performer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 forgot	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 sounds	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sounds	det
40	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sounds	amod
41	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 forgot	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 produced	nsubj
43	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sounds	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the violin and the bow				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	perform	to-infinitive	the violin and the bow not said here			of violin's master; independently property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	guide	past	violin's master	violin			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	breathe a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		bow	the instrument		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	forget	past	the audience	the performer	the beautiful sounds		tree rules
6	produce	past	audience	the beautiful sounds not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Result

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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