Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 15
One let his pinions glide over the strings of the golden harp, and it resounded through the North.
Who acts: One, pinions, harp · What happens: let, glide, resound · To what, where: strings, North
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, pinions, harp), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pinions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 glide | nsubj |
| 5 | glide | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 strings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 strings | det |
| 8 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 glide | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 harp | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 harp | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 harp | amod |
| 12 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strings | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 resounded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 resounded | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 resounded | nsubj |
| 16 | resounded | resound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 North | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 North | det |
| 19 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 resounded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | One | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | glide | present | swan's pinions | the strings of the golden harp | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over string=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | resound | past | harp | the North | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through north=Location |
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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