Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 46
A glorious strain of music sounded--now distant, now near.
Who acts: glorious strain, music · What happens: sound, strain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glorious strain, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 strain | det |
| 2 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strain | amod |
| 3 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounded | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 music | case |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strain | nmod |
| 6 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 distant | punct |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 distant | advmod |
| 9 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sounded | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 near | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 near | advmod |
| 12 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 distant | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | a glorious strain of music | distant property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | strain | music | nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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