Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 32
The great church door flew open wide, and as they walked up the broad aisle, soft tones of music sounded from the organ. "
Who acts: great church door, tree, soft tones · What happens: fly, walk up, sound, intonate · To what, where: broad aisle, organ, music
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (great church door, tree, soft tones), 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 | 4 door | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 door | amod |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flew | xcomp |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 walked | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 walked | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 aisle | det |
| 15 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 aisle | amod |
| 16 | aisle | aisle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tones | punct |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tones | amod |
| 19 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sounded | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 music | case |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tones | nmod |
| 22 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walked | parataxis |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 organ | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 organ | det |
| 25 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sounded | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the great church door | open, wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk up | past | tree | the broad aisle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sound | past | soft tones of music | the organ | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | intonate | music | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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