Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 26
He had a sweet voice, and every melody seemed to flow naturally from his lips.
Who acts: boy, melody · What happens: have, seem, flow · To what, where: sweet voice, lips
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, melody), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voice | amod |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | cc |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 melody | det |
| 9 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 flow | mark |
| 12 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 12 flow | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 lips | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lips | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flow | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | boy | a sweet voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | every melody | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | flow | to-infinitive | every melody not said here | boy's lips | naturally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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