Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 63

The fire-shovel clattered down on the brass fender; and then, quite as suddenly, all was still,--nothing could be heard but the light, vapory song of the tea-kettle, which was quite wonderful to hear, for no one could rightly distinguish whether the kettle was just beginning to boil or going to stop.

Who acts: tea kettle, one, kettle · What happens: clatter down, hear, be, distinguish, begin, boil · To what, where: fire shovel, brass fender

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 (tea kettle, one, kettle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shovel	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shovel	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fire	punct
4	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	nsubj
5	clattered	clatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shovel	acl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 clattered	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 fender	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fender	det
9	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fender	compound
10	fender	fender	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clattered	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 heard	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 then	punct
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 suddenly	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 suddenly	advmod
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	27 heard	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 suddenly	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 heard	advmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	aux:pass
21	still	still	ADV	_	27 heard	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 heard	nsubj:pass
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 heard	aux:pass
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 light	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 light	det
30	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 song	punct
32	vapory	vapory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 song	amod
33	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 light	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 kettle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 kettle	det
36	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kettle	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 tea	punct
38	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 song	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wonderful	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 wonderful	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 wonderful	cop
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	43 wonderful	advmod
43	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 kettle	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 hear	mark
45	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 wonderful	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 distinguish	punct
47	for	for	SCONJ	_	52 distinguish	mark
48	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	49 one	det
49	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 distinguish	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 distinguish	aux
51	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	52 distinguish	advmod
52	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 hear	conj
53	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	58 beginning	mark
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 kettle	det
55	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 beginning	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 beginning	aux
57	just	just	ADV	_	58 beginning	advmod
58	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 distinguish	advcl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 boil	mark
60	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 beginning	xcomp
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 going	cc
62	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 beginning	conj
63	to	to	PART	_	64 stop	mark
64	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 going	xcomp
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clatter down	participle		the fire shovel not said here	the brass fender			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fender=Location
2	hear	could · past · passive		the fire shovel		then; still	suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	is	past	the tea kettle				wonderful property	tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	the tea kettle not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	distinguish	could	no one				rightly property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past · progressive	the kettle					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	boil	to-infinitive	the kettle not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	go	gerund	the kettle not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	stop	to-infinitive	the kettle not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
10	sing		the tea kettle					nom song «communication 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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