Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 42

The two children still continued to play together by the elder-tree, and under the willow; and the little maiden sang beautiful songs, with a voice that was as clear as a bell.

Who acts: two children, little maiden, voice · What happens: continue, play, sing, be · To what, where: willow, beautiful songs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two children, little maiden, voice), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 children	nummod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 continued	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 continued	advmod
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 continued	xcomp
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 play	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
11	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 elder	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 willow	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 willow	cc
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 willow	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 willow	det
18	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sang	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sang	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 maiden	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 maiden	amod
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sang	nsubj
24	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 continued	conj
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 songs	amod
26	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sang	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 voice	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 voice	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 voice	det
30	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sang	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 clear	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 clear	cop
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 clear	advmod
34	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 voice	acl:relcl
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 bell	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bell	det
37	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 clear	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the two children			still		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	play	to-infinitive	the two children not said here		the willow		by the elder tree; together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	the little maiden	beautiful songs			with a voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	is	past	a voice				as a bell; clear 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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