Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 120

He sang it out clearly, sweetly, richly, in well-sounding verses; while the other investigated created matter itself, and even cut it open where need was.

Who acts: God · What happens: sing out, sound, investigate, create, cut, be · To what, where: searcher, sounding verses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sang	compound:prt
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sweetly	punct
7	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 richly	punct
9	richly	richly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 verses	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 verses	case
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 sounding	advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 well	punct
14	sounding	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 verses	amod
15	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sang	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 matter	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 matter	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 matter	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 matter	amod
20	investigated	investigate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 matter	amod
21	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 matter	amod
22	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obl
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	22 matter	nmod:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cut	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 cut	advmod
27	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	obj
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cut	xcomp
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 need	advmod
31	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	parataxis
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 need	cop
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing out speech: express	past	God	searcher	sounding verses	the other investigated created matter searcher obl; clearly, richly, sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	sound	gerund				well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	investigate	participle					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	create	participle					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	cut	infinitive		searcher		open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
6	is	past				need property	tree rules

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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