Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 35

Shouts of joy greet him from the breasts of all, and the clash of bells sounds to celebrate his triumphant return; but the clash of the bells of envy soon drowns the others.

Who acts: Shouts, clash, bells, Columbus · What happens: greet, sound, celebrate, drown, shout, clash · To what, where: Columbus, breasts, triumphant return, others, joy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shouts, clash, bells, Columbus), 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	Shouts	shout	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 greet	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 joy	case
3	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouts	nmod
4	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 greet	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 breasts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 breasts	det
8	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 greet	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 breasts	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sounds	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sounds	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clash	det
14	clash	clash	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sounds	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 bells	case
16	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clash	nmod
17	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greet	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 celebrate	mark
19	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sounds	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 return	nmod:poss
21	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 return	amod
22	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 celebrate	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 drowns	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 drowns	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 clash	det
26	clash	clash	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drowns	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 bells	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bells	det
29	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 clash	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 envy	case
31	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bells	nmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 drowns	advmod
33	drowns	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greet	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 others	det
35	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drowns	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 greet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	Shouts of joy		Columbus	the breasts of all		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	sound	present	the clash of bells					tree rules
3	celebrate	to-infinitive	the clash of bells not said here	Columbus's triumphant return				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme
4	drown	present	the clash of the bells of envy	the others			soon property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient
5	shout			joy				nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	clash		bells					nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent
7	return		Columbus					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8	clash		the bells of envy					nom clash «event 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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