Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 44

And all the church bells rang of themselves, and the birds came in great troops.

Who acts: church bells, birds · What happens: ring, come · To what, where: great troops

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (church bells, birds), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 rang	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bells	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bells	det
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bells	compound
5	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rang	nsubj
6	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 rang	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rang	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 troops	case
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 troops	amod
16	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 came	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	all church bells					of bells = bell	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the birds			great troops			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in troops=Location

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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