Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 91

Then they ceased, and all around became still; not a bird could be heard, they were all at rest, even the owl had not left her hiding place; deep silence reigned on the margin of the wood by the sea-shore.

Who acts: bells · What happens: cease, become, hear, be, not leave, reign · To what, where: bird, rest, owl, deep silence, margin

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 (bells), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ceased	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ceased	nsubj
3	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 became	cc
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 became	advmod
7	around	around	ADV	_	8 became	advmod
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ceased	conj
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 became	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bird	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj:pass
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 heard	aux:pass
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ceased	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rest	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rest	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rest	cop
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 rest	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 rest	case
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 left	punct
24	even	even	ADV	_	26 owl	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 owl	det
26	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 left	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 left	advmod
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 heard	parataxis
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 place	nmod:poss
31	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 place	compound
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 silence	punct
34	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 silence	amod
35	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ceased	parataxis
36	reigned	reign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 silence	acl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 margin	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 margin	det
39	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reigned	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 wood	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wood	det
42	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 margin	nmod
43	by	by	ADP	_	47 shore	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 shore	det
45	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 shore	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 sea	punct
47	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reigned	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	past	bells = bell			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	become	past	bells = bell not said here			still	all, around property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	hear	could · passive		a bird				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	is	past	bells = bell		rest		all property	tree rules
5	not leave	past · perfect · passive		the owl				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme place=Attribute
6	reign	participle		deep silence not said here	the margin of the wood		by the sea shore	tree rules

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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