Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 13
Then the dead were carried to the grave with the sound of solemn music, and the tolling of the church bells.
What happens: carry, toll · To what, where: dead, grave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 carried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dead | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 grave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grave | det |
| 8 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sound | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grave | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 music | case |
| 13 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 music | amod |
| 14 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tolling | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tolling | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tolling | det |
| 18 | tolling | toll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 carried | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bells | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bells | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bells | compound |
| 22 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tolling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the dead | the grave with the sound of solemn music | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to grave=Destination | |||
| 2 | toll | gerund | of the church bells | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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