Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 16

Sound on, ye glorious strains of the hunter's horn; continue your stirring tones, for the evening is mild, and the surface of the sea, heaving slowly and calmly, is smooth as a mirror.

Who acts: ye, evening, Sound, your · What happens: strain, continue, be, heave, intonate · To what, where: stirring tones

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, evening, Sound, your), 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	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 smooth	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Sound	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 strains	punct
4	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 strains	nsubj
5	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 strains	amod
6	strains	strain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sound	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 horn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunter	det
9	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horn	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 hunter	case
11	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strains	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 continue	punct
13	continue	continue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sound	parataxis
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tones	nmod:poss
15	stirring	stirring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tones	compound
16	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 continue	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mild	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 mild	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 evening	det
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mild	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mild	cop
22	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 continue	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 surface	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 surface	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 surface	det
26	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mild	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 surface	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 heaving	punct
31	heaving	heave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 mild	conj
32	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	31 heaving	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 calmly	cc
34	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	32 slowly	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sound	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 smooth	cop
37	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 mirror	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 mirror	det
40	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 smooth	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 smooth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	strain		ye		of the hunter's horn	tree rules
2	continue	infinitive		your stirring tones		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tone=Theme
3	is	present	the evening		the surface of the sea obl; mild property	tree rules
4	heave	gerund	the evening not said here		slowly property	vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	Sound and glorious strains		as a mirror; smooth property	tree rules
6	intonate		your			nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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