Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 201
Now she heard the following words sadly sung,--
Who acts: page · What happens: hear, follow, sing · To what, where: following words
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 (page), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 8 sung | advmod |
| 8 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 words | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sung | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | page | the following words | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | participle | the following words not said here | sadly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/201/