Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 90

The sun had set, and the evening bells sounded through the air from the tower of the village church, but to her it was not the bells, but the cry of the frogs in the marshes.

Who acts: evening bells, moonlight, frogs · What happens: set, sound, not be, cry · To what, where: sun, air, bells, Anne

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening bells, moonlight, frogs), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sounded	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sounded	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bells	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bells	compound
9	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sounded	nsubj
10	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sounded	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 tower	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tower	det
16	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sounded	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 church	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 church	det
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 church	compound
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tower	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bells	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 bells	cc
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bells	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bells	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bells	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 bells	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bells	det
29	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cry	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 cry	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cry	det
33	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	parataxis
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 frogs	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 frogs	det
36	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 cry	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 marshes	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 marshes	det
39	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 frogs	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past · perfect · passive		the sun				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	sound	past	the evening bells			the air	from the tower of the village church	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
3	not is a	past	moonlight	the bells	Anne			tree rules
4	cry		the frogs in the marshes					nom cry «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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