Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 137
In Angelo's room, among a litter of colored sketches (studies) and glowing pictures, the voices sounded mellower, but not less merrily.
Who acts: voices · What happens: color, glow, sound · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voices), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 room | case |
| 2 | Angelo | Angelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 room | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Angelo | case |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sounded | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 litter | punct |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 litter | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 litter | det |
| 8 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sketches | case |
| 10 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sketches | amod |
| 11 | sketches | sketch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 litter | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 studies | punct |
| 13 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sketches | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 studies | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pictures | cc |
| 16 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 pictures | amod |
| 17 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sketches | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 room | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voices | det |
| 20 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sounded | nsubj |
| 21 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | mellower | mellow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 sounded | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 merrily | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 merrily | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 less | advmod |
| 26 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 merrily | advmod |
| 27 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 21 sounded | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sound | past | the voices | Angelo's room | mellow, merrily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
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/pg27200/151/137/