Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 176
In its sounds were heard the piping of the thrush and the full clear note of the human voice; therefore the sound brought rapture to every heart, and carried his name triumphant through the land.
Who acts: sound, heart · What happens: hear, bring, carry, note, name · To what, where: piping, sounds, rapture, heart, name, land
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 (sound, heart), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sounds | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sounds | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux:pass |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 piping | det |
| 7 | piping | piping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thrush | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thrush | det |
| 10 | thrush | thrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piping | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 note | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 note | det |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 note | amod |
| 14 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 note | amod |
| 15 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thrush | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 18 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 note | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 21 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 24 brought | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sound | det |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | nsubj |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 25 | rapture | rapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 heart | det |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carried | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 carried | cc |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | obj |
| 34 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 carried | xcomp |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 land | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 land | det |
| 37 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the piping of the thrush and the full clear note of the human voice | sound's sounds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: piping=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the sound | rapture | every heart | therefore property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rapture=Theme to heart=Destination | ||
| 3 | carry | past | the sound not said here | heart's name | the land | triumphant property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||
| 4 | note | the human voice | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | name | heart | nom name «communication 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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