Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 76

"Mother, now the bells of heaven are ringing," said the child; "mother, the sun is going to rise."

Who acts: bells, child, sun · What happens: ring, say, go, rise · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bells, child, sun), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ringing	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 ringing	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bells	det
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ringing	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 heaven	case
8	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bells	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ringing	aux
10	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Mother	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 mother	acl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 rise	mark
25	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ring in a quote	present · progressive	the bells of heaven		now	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the child			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	the sun	mother not said here		tree rules
4	rise in a quote	to-infinitive	the sun not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «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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