Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 55
From the side streets sounded the merry notes of fiddles and wind instruments.
What happens: sound, note · To what, where: merry notes, side streets, fiddles
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 streets | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 streets | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streets | compound |
| 4 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sounded | obl |
| 5 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 notes | det |
| 7 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 notes | amod |
| 8 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sounded | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fiddles | case |
| 10 | fiddles | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 notes | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 instruments | cc |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 instruments | compound |
| 13 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fiddles | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the merry notes of fiddles and wind instruments | the side streets | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme | ||||
| 2 | note | fiddles and wind instruments | nom note «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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