Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 101
The organ played and the children's voices in the choir sounded soft and lovely.
Who acts: organ, choir · What happens: play, sound
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (organ, choir), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 organ | det |
| 2 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 voices | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 voices | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 children | case |
| 8 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | conj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 sounded | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 choir | det |
| 11 | choir | choir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sounded | nsubj |
| 12 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | advcl |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sounded | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lovely | cc |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 soft | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the organ | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sound | past | the choir | soft property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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