Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 45

Eliza even fancied she could hear the tones of the organ, but it was the music of the murmuring sea which she heard.

Who acts: Eliza, organ · What happens: fancy, hear, be, murmur, intonate · To what, where: tones, music, murmuring sea, organ

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 (Eliza, organ), 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	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 fancied	advmod
3	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fancied	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tones	det
8	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 organ	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 organ	det
11	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tones	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 music	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 music	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 music	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 music	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 music	det
17	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
20	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 sea	amod
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 music	nmod
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 heard	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sea	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	Eliza			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hear	could	Eliza	the tones of the organ		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus
3	is a	past	organ	the music	of the murmuring sea	tree rules
4	murmur speech: other	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	Eliza	the murmuring sea		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
6	intonate			the organ		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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