Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 199
Soft tones and charming songs reached her ear, as well as harsh sounds and rough words--thoughts and opinions in strange contradiction to each other.
Who acts: Soft tones · What happens: charm, reach · To what, where: ear
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 (Soft tones), 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 | Soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tones | amod |
| 2 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 songs | cc |
| 4 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 songs | amod |
| 5 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tones | conj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sounds | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 14 sounds | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 13 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sounds | amod |
| 14 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reached | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 words | cc |
| 16 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 words | amod |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sounds | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 thoughts | punct |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sounds | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opinions | cc |
| 21 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thoughts | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 contradiction | case |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 contradiction | amod |
| 24 | contradiction | contradiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thoughts | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 each | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 contradiction | nmod |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | reach | past | Soft tones and charming songs | page's ear | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ear=Beneficiary sound=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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