Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 73

In the palace, the high-born gentlemen and beautiful ladies danced with each other, and they could be heard at a great distance singing the following song:--

Who acts: born gentlemen, great distance · What happens: bear, dance, hear, sing, follow · To what, where: palace, gentlemen, following song

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (born gentlemen, great distance), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 danced	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 palace	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gentlemen	det
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 born	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 gentlemen	amod
9	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 danced	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ladies	cc
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ladies	amod
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gentlemen	conj
13	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 danced	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj:pass
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 heard	aux:pass
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 danced	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 distance	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 distance	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 distance	amod
26	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
27	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 distance	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 song	det
29	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 song	amod
30	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 singing	obj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 danced	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	dance	past	the born gentlemen and beautiful ladies		the palace	with each	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
3	hear	could · passive		gentlemen = gentleman		at a great distance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express	gerund	a great distance not said here	the following song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
5	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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