Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 15

Every candle in the church became a star, and the wind sang a hymn in which they all joined. "

Who acts: candle, wind, walls · What happens: become, sing, join · To what, where: star, hymn

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (candle, wind, walls), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 candle	nmod
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 star	det
8	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sang	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sang	nsubj
13	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hymn	det
15	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sang	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 joined	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 joined	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 joined	advmod
20	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hymn	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sang	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	every candle in the church	a star		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past	the wind	a hymn		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
3	join	past	walls = wall		in a hymn	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=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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