Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 4
All the bells were ringing, and all the people went to church, looking cheerful, and dressed in their best clothes.
Who acts: bells, people · What happens: ring, go, look, dress · To what, where: church, best clothes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells, people), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 bells | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bells | det |
| 3 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ringing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ringing | aux |
| 5 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 people | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ringing | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 church | case |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ringing | conj |
| 16 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looking | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dressed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dressed | cc |
| 19 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 ringing | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 clothes | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 clothes | amod |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 dressed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past · progressive | all bells | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | all people | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | all bells not said here | cheerful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | dress | participle | all bells not said here | people's best clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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