Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 30

There were little bells round the rim, and when the water began to boil in it, the bells began to play the old tune:

Who acts: little bells, water, bells · What happens: be, begin, boil, play · To what, where: old tune

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bells, water, bells), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bells	amod
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 rim	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rim	det
7	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bells	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 began	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 boil	mark
15	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 boil	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bells	det
20	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 play	mark
23	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tune	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tune	amod
26	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	little bells round the rim		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the water				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	boil	to-infinitive	the water not said here			in water	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in it=Instrument
4	begin	past	the bells				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	play	to-infinitive	the bells not said here	the old tune			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme

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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