Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 134
"The bells are ringing for the new-born year," said the ruler, "soon will a new ruler and his bride be born, and I shall go to rest with my wife in yonder light-giving star."
Who acts: bells, ruler · What happens: ring, bear, say, go, rest, give · To what, where: new ruler, giving star · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells, ruler), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ringing | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bells | det |
| 3 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ringing | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ringing | aux |
| 5 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 born | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 new | punct |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ringing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ringing | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ringing | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ruler | det |
| 16 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 born | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 born | punct |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 born | advmod |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 born | aux |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 ruler | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ruler | amod |
| 23 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 born | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bride | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bride | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ruler | conj |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 born | aux:pass |
| 28 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 go | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 rest | mark |
| 35 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 go | xcomp |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 wife | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wife | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rest | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 star | case |
| 40 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 44 star | advmod |
| 41 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 giving | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 light | punct |
| 43 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 star | amod |
| 44 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rest | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring in a quote | present · progressive | the bells | year | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the ruler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | future · passive | a new ruler and snow's bride | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | shall | the ruler = ruler | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | rest in a quote | to-infinitive | the ruler = ruler not said here | giving star | with my wife | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in star=Location | |||
| 7 | give in a quote | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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