Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 187

O-h, o-h,' she would say, 'no bell sounded at thy burial, Waldemar Daa.

Who acts: h, bell, thy · What happens: say, sound, bury · To what, where: burial · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (h, bell, thy), 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	O	o	INTJ	_	3 h	discourse
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 h	punct
3	h	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 h	punct
5	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 h	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 o	punct
7	h	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 h	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 h	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sounded	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 sounded	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 bell	det
16	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sounded	nsubj
17	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 burial	case
19	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 burial	nmod:poss
20	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sounded	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Waldemar	punct
22	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 burial	appos
23	Daa	Daa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Waldemar	flat
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 h	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	h		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sound	past	no bell	thy burial	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at burial=Location
3	bury		thy		nom burial «event transitive»: poss=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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