Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 47

Never had she listened to such tones as these; they came from beyond a large dark curtain which separated the regions of death from the land of eternity.

Who acts: strain, tones, large dark curtain · What happens: not have, listen, come, separate · To what, where: strain, large dark curtain, regions

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 (strain, tones, large dark curtain), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tones	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tones	amod
7	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listened	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 these	case
9	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 tones	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	18 curtain	case
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	18 curtain	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 curtain	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 curtain	amod
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 curtain	amod
18	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 separated	nsubj
20	separated	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 curtain	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 regions	det
22	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 separated	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 regions	nmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 land	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 land	det
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 separated	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 eternity	case
29	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 land	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have	past		strain			tree rules
2	listen	participle	strain not said here			to such tones as these	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tone=Theme
3	come	past	tones = tone		a large dark curtain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from curtain=Initial_Location
4	separate	past	a large dark curtain	the regions of death		from the land of eternity	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent region=Patient from land=Co-Patient

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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