Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 131

When, after a night at a ball, we drive home half asleep and half awake, the melodies still sound plainly in our ears; we hear them, and could sing them all from memory.

Who acts: we, melodies · What happens: drive, sound, hear, sing · To what, where: ears, melodies, memory

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, melodies), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 drive	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 night	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drive	obl:unmarked
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 ball	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 drive	nsubj
11	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 drive	advmod
13	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 asleep	advmod
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 awake	cc
16	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 awake	advmod
17	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 asleep	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sound	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 melodies	det
20	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sound	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 sound	advmod
22	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	parataxis
23	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	22 sound	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ears	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ears	nmod:poss
26	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sound	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 hear	punct
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 hear	nsubj
29	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	parataxis
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hear	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sing	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sing	cc
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 sing	aux
34	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 hear	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sing	obj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 them	nmod:unmarked
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 memory	case
38	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sing	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	we			night	home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	sound	present	the melodies		our ears	still	plainly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
3	hear	present	we	melodies = melody				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express	could	we not said here	melodies = melody	memory			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

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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