Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 117
The flute was heard at the distance of a mile, and strange events took place.
Who acts: strange events · What happens: hear, take · To what, where: flute, place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange events), 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 flute | det |
| 2 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux:pass |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 distance | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 distance | det |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mile | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mile | det |
| 10 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distance | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 events | amod |
| 14 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the flute | at the distance of a mile | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | strange events | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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