Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 104

Here are sounds of soft Italian melodies; yonder, Spanish songs are sung, accompanied by the rattle of the castanets; but strongest of all, and predominating over the rest, the street-organ tunes of the moment, the exciting "Can-Can" music, which Orpheus never knew, and which was never heard by the "Belle Helene."

Who acts: exciting, Orpheus, Belle, castanets · What happens: be, sing, accompany, predominate, music, not know · To what, where: Spanish songs, rest, music

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (exciting, Orpheus, Belle, castanets), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sung	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 melodies	case
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 melodies	amod
6	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 melodies	amod
7	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sounds	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
9	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	12 songs	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 yonder	punct
11	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 songs	amod
12	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sung	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sung	aux:pass
14	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 accompanied	punct
16	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sung	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 rattle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rattle	det
19	rattle	rattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 accompanied	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 castanets	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 castanets	det
22	castanets	castanet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rattle	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 strongest	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 strongest	cc
25	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 sung	obl:unmarked
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 strongest	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 predominating	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 predominating	cc
30	predominating	predominate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sung	advcl
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 rest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rest	det
33	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 predominating	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tunes	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tunes	det
36	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 organ	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 street	punct
38	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tunes	compound
39	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rest	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 moment	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 moment	det
42	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tunes	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 music	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 exciting	det
45	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 music	nsubj
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 music	punct
47	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 Can	aux
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 Can	punct
49	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 music	aux
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 Can	punct
51	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rest	appos
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 knew	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 knew	obj
54	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 knew	nsubj
55	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	56 knew	advmod
56	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 music	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 heard	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 heard	cc
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 heard	nsubj:pass
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 heard	aux:pass
61	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	62 heard	advmod
62	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sung	conj
63	by	by	ADP	_	66 Belle	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Belle	det
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	66 Belle	punct
66	Belle	Belle	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 heard	obl
67	Helene	Helene	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 Belle	flat
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sung	punct
69	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				here property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	present · passive		Spanish songs		strongest obl:unmarked	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	accompany	participle				by the rattle of the castanets	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by rattle=Destination
4	predominate	gerund			the rest the organ tunes of the moment		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rest=Location
5	music	can	the exciting				tree rules
6	not know	past	Orpheus	music			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
7	not hear	past · passive	the Belle				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
8	rattle		the castanets				nom rattle «event 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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