Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 8
The tones of the organ swelled, and in their song there sounded these words:
Who acts: tones · What happens: swell, sound, intonate, sing · To what, where: words, song, organ
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tones | det |
| 2 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swelled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 organ | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 organ | det |
| 5 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tones | nmod |
| 6 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sounded | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 song | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 song | nmod:poss |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounded | obl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sounded | advmod |
| 13 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 swelled | conj |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 words | det |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sounded | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | past | the tones of the organ | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | sound | past | the tones of the organ not said here | this words | tones's song; there | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | |||
| 3 | intonate | the organ | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | sing | tones = tone | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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