Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 107
Falsehood thrust itself forward and played the hypocrite; the bells on the fool's cap jingled, and declared they were church-bells, and the noise became so bad for the Hearer that he thrust his fingers into his ears.
Who acts: Falsehood thrust, bells, noise, tumult · What happens: play, jingle, declare, be, become, thrust · To what, where: hypocrite, church bells, fingers, ears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Falsehood thrust, bells, noise, tumult), 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 | Falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrust | compound |
| 2 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | nsubj |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 thrust | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 played | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 played | cc |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hypocrite | det |
| 8 | hypocrite | hypocrite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 jingled | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bells | det |
| 11 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 jingled | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 cap | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fool | det |
| 14 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cap | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 fool | case |
| 16 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bells | nmod |
| 17 | jingled | jingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 played | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 declared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 declared | cc |
| 20 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 jingled | conj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bells | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bells | cop |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bells | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 church | punct |
| 25 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 declared | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 became | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 became | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 noise | det |
| 29 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 became | nsubj |
| 30 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 jingled | conj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 bad | advmod |
| 32 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 became | xcomp |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 Hearer | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Hearer | det |
| 35 | Hearer | Hearer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 bad | obl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 thrust | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 thrust | nsubj |
| 38 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 became | advcl |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 40 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 thrust | obj |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 ears | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 ears | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 thrust | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Falsehood thrust thrust | the hypocrite | forward property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hypocrite=Theme | |||
| 2 | jingle | past | the bells on the fool's cap | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | the bells on the fool's cap not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | bells = bell | church bells | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | become | past | the noise | bad property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | thrust | past | tumult | tumult's fingers | tumult's ears | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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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