Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 108

Still, he could hear false notes and bad singing, gossip and idle words, scandal and slander, groaning and moaning, without and within. "

Who acts: tumult · What happens: hear, groan, moan · To what, where: false notes

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 (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	Still	still	ADV	_	5 hear	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 notes	amod
7	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hear	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 singing	cc
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 singing	amod
10	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 notes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gossip	punct
12	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singing	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 words	cc
14	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 words	amod
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 singing	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scandal	punct
17	scandal	scandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 notes	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 slander	cc
19	slander	slander	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 scandal	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 groaning	punct
21	groaning	groan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hear	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 moaning	cc
23	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 groaning	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 without	punct
25	without	without	ADP	_	23 moaning	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 within	cc
27	within	within	ADP	_	25 without	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	could	tumult	false notes scandal and slander and bad singing and gossip and idle words	still	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus
2	groan	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	moan	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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