Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 55

Very soon they recognized the large town where they lived, and the tall steeples of the churches, in which the sweet bells were ringing a merry peal as they entered it, and found their way to their grandmother's door.

Who acts: hands, tall steeples · What happens: recognize, live, ring, enter, find · To what, where: large town, merry peal, peal, way

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, tall steeples), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 recognized	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recognized	nsubj
4	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 town	amod
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recognized	obj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 lived	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 town	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ringing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ringing	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 steeples	det
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 steeples	amod
15	steeples	steeple	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ringing	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 churches	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 churches	det
18	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 steeples	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ringing	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 ringing	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bells	det
23	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bells	amod
24	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ringing	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ringing	aux
26	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 recognized	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 peal	det
28	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 peal	amod
29	peal	peal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ringing	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 entered	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 entered	nsubj
32	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ringing	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 entered	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 found	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 found	cc
36	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recognized	conj
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 way	nmod:poss
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 found	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 door	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 grandmother	nmod:poss
41	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 door	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 grandmother	case
43	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 found	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 recognized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	recognize	past	hands = hand	the large town	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus
2	live	past	hands = hand			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ring	past · progressive	the tall steeples of the churches	a merry peal		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peal=Theme
4	enter	past	hands = hand	peal		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
5	find	past	hands = hand not said here	hands's way	to hands's grandmother's door	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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