Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 107
Very soon the joyous church bells announced the marriage feast, and that the beautiful dumb girl out of the wood was to be made the queen of the country.
Who acts: joyous church bells · What happens: announce, make · To what, where: marriage feast, beautiful dumb girl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joyous church bells), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 announced | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bells | det |
| 4 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bells | amod |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bells | compound |
| 6 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 announced | nsubj |
| 7 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feast | compound |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 announced | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 16 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 announced | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 queen | det |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 country | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 country | det |
| 30 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 queen | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the joyous church bells | the marriage feast | soon property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feast=Reflexive | |||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the beautiful dumb girl out the wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary queen=Product |
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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