Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 62

It was a Sunday, towards the end of September; the sun was shining, and the chiming of the church bells in the Bay of Nissum was carried along by the breeze like a chain of sounds.

Who acts: pair, sun, breeze · What happens: be, shine, chime, carry · To what, where: Sunday

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 (pair, sun, breeze), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Sunday	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Sunday	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Sunday	det
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 carried	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 end	punct
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Sunday	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 September	case
10	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 shining	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shining	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shining	aux
15	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Sunday	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chiming	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chiming	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chiming	det
19	chiming	chime	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 shining	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 bells	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bells	det
22	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bells	compound
23	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 chiming	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 Bay	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Bay	det
26	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bells	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Nissum	case
28	Nissum	Nissum	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Bay	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 carried	aux:pass
30	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
31	along	along	ADV	_	30 carried	advmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 breeze	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 breeze	det
34	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carried	obl
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 chain	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 chain	det
37	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 breeze	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 sounds	case
39	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 chain	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	pair	a Sunday		tree rules
2	shine	past · progressive	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chime	gerund	the sun not said here		of the church bells in the Bay of Nissum	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	past · passive	the breeze like a chain of sounds	a Sunday	along property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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