Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 86

Yet in heaven can be heard the song of praise, even from a worm; and the notes trembling in the breast of the bird were as audible to Heaven even as the psalms of David before they had fashioned themselves into words and song.

Who acts: notes, praise · What happens: hear, tremble, be, have, sing · To what, where: song, heaven, breast, words

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notes, praise), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	6 heard	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 heaven	case
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	aux:pass
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 praise	case
10	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worm	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 worm	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 worm	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 worm	det
15	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 audible	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 notes	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 notes	det
19	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 audible	nsubj
20	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 notes	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 breast	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 breast	det
23	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trembling	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 bird	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bird	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 breast	nmod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 audible	cop
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 audible	case
29	audible	audible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heard	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Heaven	case
31	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 audible	obl
32	even	even	ADV	_	35 psalms	advmod
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 psalms	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 psalms	det
35	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 audible	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 David	case
37	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 psalms	nmod
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 audible	advcl
41	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 had	xcomp
42	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 fashioned	obl
43	into	into	ADP	_	44 words	case
44	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 had	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 song	cc
46	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 words	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	can · passive		the song of praise and a worm		heaven		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: song=Stimulus
2	tremble	gerund	the notes not said here			the breast of the bird		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location
3	is	past	the notes		Heaven		as the psalms of David; audible property	tree rules
4	have	past	notes = note			words and song	fashioned property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sing		praise					nom song «communication 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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