Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 6
The gates flew open, and all the dead people from the churchyard came in, and filled the church, while beautiful music sounded.
Who acts: gates, dead people, beautiful music · What happens: fly, come in, fill, sound · To what, where: church
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 (gates, dead people, beautiful music), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gates | det |
| 2 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 churchyard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 churchyard | det |
| 13 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 filled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 filled | cc |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 church | det |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sounded | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 sounded | mark |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 music | amod |
| 24 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sounded | nsubj |
| 25 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 filled | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the gates | open property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in | past | all dead people from the churchyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fill | past | the gates not said here | the church | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent church=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sound | past | beautiful music | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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