Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 8
He had been brought into existence amidst the joyous shouts of boys, the jingling of sleigh-bells, and the slashing of whips.
Who acts: joyous · What happens: bring, shout · To what, where: mouth, existence
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joyous), 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 | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 existence | case |
| 6 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 7 | amidst | amidst | SCONJ | _ | 10 shouts | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 joyous | det |
| 9 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shouts | nsubj |
| 10 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 boys | case |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shouts | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jingling | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jingling | det |
| 15 | jingling | jingling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boys | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bells | case |
| 17 | sleigh | sleigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bells | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sleigh | punct |
| 19 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 jingling | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slashing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 slashing | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 slashing | det |
| 23 | slashing | slashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 whips | case |
| 25 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 slashing | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | mouth | existence | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into existence=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | the joyous | of boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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