Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 175

There was a golden treasure in his bosom, the power of sound; it burst forth on his violin as if the instrument had been a complete organ, and as if all the elves of a midsummer night were dancing across the strings.

Who acts: golden treasure, sound, instrument, elves, drummer · What happens: be, burst, dance, bosom · To what, where: violin, complete organ, strings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden treasure, sound, instrument, elves), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 treasure	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 treasure	amod
5	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bosom	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bosom	nmod:poss
8	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 treasure	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 power	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 power	det
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bosom	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sound	case
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 power	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 burst	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 burst	nsubj
16	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 burst	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 violin	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 violin	nmod:poss
20	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burst	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 organ	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 organ	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 instrument	det
24	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 organ	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 organ	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 organ	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 organ	det
28	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 organ	amod
29	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burst	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dancing	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dancing	cc
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 dancing	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 dancing	mark
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 elves	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 elves	det
36	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 dancing	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 night	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 night	det
39	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 night	compound
40	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 elves	nmod
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dancing	aux
42	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 burst	advcl
43	across	across	ADP	_	45 strings	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 strings	det
45	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 dancing	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a golden treasure in drummer's bosom		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burst	past	sound		drummer's violin	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on violin=Location
3	is a	past · perfect	the instrument	a complete organ			tree rules
4	dance	past · progressive	all elves of a midsummer night		the strings		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme across string=Trajectory
5	bosom		drummer				nom bosom «state transitive»: 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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