Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 40

Then commenced such music that it sounded like a thousand glass bells, and was so full and strong that I thought it must be the song of the swans.

Who acts: music, I · What happens: commence, sound, be, think · To what, where: such music, song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 commenced	advmod
2	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 music	amod
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 commenced	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 sounded	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sounded	nsubj
7	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 commenced	advcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 bells	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thousand	det
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 bells	nummod
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bells	compound
12	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sounded	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 full	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 full	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 full	advmod
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 commenced	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 strong	cc
19	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 full	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 thought	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 full	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 song	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 song	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 song	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 song	det
27	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 swans	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 swans	det
30	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 song	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 commenced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	commence	past		such music	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Eventuality
2	sound	past	music			like thousand glass bells	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past				full property	tree rules
4	be						tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	must	music	the song		of the swans	tree rules

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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