Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 126
The bells sounded from the neighboring church, and the sun seemed to rejoice in the sky.
Who acts: bells, sun · What happens: sound, seem, rejoice · To what, where: neighboring church, sky
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells, sun), 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 | 2 bells | det |
| 2 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 6 | neighboring | neighboring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 church | compound |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seemed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounded | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rejoice | mark |
| 14 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rejoice | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the bells | the neighboring church | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the sun | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | the sky | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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