Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 35
Sounds came from within it; there came a song with words, the history of the potato, an every-day story in ten parts, an interesting story.
Who acts: Sounds · What happens: come · To what, where: hand, song
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sounds), 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 | Sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 came | expl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 song | det |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 history | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 history | det |
| 15 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 words | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 potato | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 potato | det |
| 18 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 history | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 story | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 every | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 story | compound |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 history | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 parts | case |
| 26 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 parts | nummod |
| 27 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 story | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 story | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 story | det |
| 30 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 story | amod |
| 31 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 history | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Sounds | hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Sounds not said here | a song | there | with words | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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