Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 32

Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets came from the road beneath, the stars shone above then, and two eyes full of affection--those of his wife--looked upon him with the expression of undying love. "

Who acts: Sounds, castanets · What happens: come, shine, look, clatter · To what, where: road, stars

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sounds, castanets), 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	Sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 music	case
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sounds	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clatter	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clatter	det
6	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 music	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 castanets	case
8	castanets	castanet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clatter	nmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stars	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stars	det
16	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	parataxis
17	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stars	acl
18	above	above	ADV	_	17 shone	advmod
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 shone	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 full	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 full	cc
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 eyes	nummod
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 full	nsubj
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 affection	case
26	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 full	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 those	punct
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 full	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 wife	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 those	nmod
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 looked	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 expression	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 expression	det
38	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 love	case
40	undying	undying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 love	amod
41	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 expression	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets		the road		beneath property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from road=Initial_Location
2	shine	participle		the stars not said here		then	above property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	Sounds of music and the clatter of castanets not said here				upon husband; with the expression of undying love	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme
4	clatter		castanets					nom clatter «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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