Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 117

There is a humming and a murmuring from the hall of the machines; from the towers the melody of the chimes is heard; with the tones of the organs in the churches mingle the hoarse nasal songs from the cafes of the East.

Who acts: humming, tones · What happens: be, hear, mingle, intonate · To what, where: melody, towers, hoarse nasal songs, cafes, organs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (humming, tones), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 humming	det
4	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 murmuring	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 murmuring	det
7	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 humming	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 murmuring	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 machines	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 machines	det
13	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hall	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 towers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 towers	det
17	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heard	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 melody	det
19	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 chimes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chimes	det
22	chimes	chime	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 melody	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux:pass
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 tones	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 tones	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tones	det
28	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mingle	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 organs	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 organs	det
31	organs	organ	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tones	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 churches	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 churches	det
34	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 organs	nmod
35	mingle	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	ccomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 songs	det
37	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 songs	amod
38	nasal	nasal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 songs	amod
39	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mingle	obj
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 cafes	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cafes	det
42	cafes	cafe	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 songs	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 East	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 East	det
45	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 cafes	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	a humming and a murmuring from the hall of the machines		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	present · passive		the melody of the chimes	the towers	tree rules
3	mingle	present	the tones of the organs in the churches	the hoarse nasal songs	the cafes of the East	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient
4	intonate			the organs in the churches		nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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