Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 17
She could sweep the sounding chords of the guitar, and sing to the music, not always Danish melodies, but the songs of a strange land.
Who acts: whir, strange land · What happens: sweep, sound, sing · To what, where: sounding chords, music
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 (whir, strange land), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sweep | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sweep | aux |
| 3 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chords | det |
| 5 | sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 chords | amod |
| 6 | chords | chord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sweep | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 guitar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guitar | det |
| 9 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chords | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sing | cc |
| 12 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sweep | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 music | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 music | det |
| 15 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 melodies | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 melodies | advmod |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 Danish | advmod |
| 19 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 melodies | amod |
| 20 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 music | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 songs | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 songs | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 songs | det |
| 24 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sweep | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 land | det |
| 27 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 land | amod |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 songs | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | could | whir | the sounding chords of the guitar | the songs of a strange land obl | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chord=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | whir not said here | the music and Danish melodies | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to music=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | sing | a strange land | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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