Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 3

He fancied he heard the organ, but it was only the storm and the moaning of the sea.

Who acts: brain, organ · What happens: fancy, hear, be · To what, where: organ, storm

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 (brain, organ), 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 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fancied	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 organ	det
6	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 storm	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 storm	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 storm	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 storm	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 storm	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 storm	det
13	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 moaning	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moaning	det
16	moaning	moaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 storm	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moaning	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fancy	past	brain		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hear	past	brain	the organ	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer organ=Stimulus
3	is a	past	organ	the storm and the moaning of the sea	tree rules

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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