Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 126
In tones that were at once rich and strong, like the trumpet of the Last Judgment bidding farewell to life and summoning to the great account, it said:
Who acts: tones, Last Judgment, farewell · What happens: be, bid, summon, say · To what, where: farewell, tones · 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 (tones, Last Judgment, farewell), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 tones | case |
| 2 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 said | obl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 rich | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rich | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 rich | advmod |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tones | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strong | cc |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rich | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trumpet | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 trumpet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trumpet | det |
| 13 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tones | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Judgment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Judgment | det |
| 16 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Judgment | amod |
| 17 | Judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trumpet | nmod |
| 18 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 Judgment | acl |
| 19 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bidding | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bidding | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 summoning | cc |
| 23 | summoning | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 bidding | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 account | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 account | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 account | amod |
| 27 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 summoning | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tones | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tones and the trumpet of the Last Judgment | once, rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tones and the trumpet of the Last Judgment not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | the Last Judgment not said here | farewell | to life | tree rules | |||
| 4 | summon | gerund | the Last Judgment not said here | to the great account | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | farewell | tones and the trumpet of the Last Judgment | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner |
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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