Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 27

And in his heart were hidden chords, which might have sounded far out into the world if he had been placed anywhere else than in the fisherman's hut by the North Sea.

Who acts: hidden chords · What happens: be, sound, place · To what, where: heart, hidden chords, boy

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 (hidden chords), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 were	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 heart	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 were	obl
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chords	amod
7	chords	chord	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sounded	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sounded	nsubj:pass
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sounded	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sounded	aux
12	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chords	acl:relcl
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 out	advmod
14	out	out	ADV	_	12 sounded	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 out	obl
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 placed	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 placed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 placed	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 placed	aux:pass
22	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sounded	advcl
23	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 placed	advmod
24	else	else	ADV	_	22 placed	advmod
25	than	than	ADP	_	30 hut	case
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 hut	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fisherman	det
28	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hut	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 fisherman	case
30	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 placed	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 Sea	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sea	det
33	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Sea	compound
34	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hut	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	hidden chords		boy's heart		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location
2	sound	might · perfect · passive		hidden chords		out property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	place a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		boy		than the fisherman's hut by the North Sea; anywhere, else property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: 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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