Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 91
"No, no!" sounded through the air, like an echo on the mountain church bells chime.
Who acts: bells · What happens: sound, chime · To what, where: air, mountain church
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 sounded | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 echo | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 echo | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 echo | det |
| 14 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 church | compound |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 echo | nmod |
| 19 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 chime | nsubj |
| 20 | chime | chime | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 church | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the air | like a echo on the mountain church | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location | ||||
| 2 | chime | present | bells | the mountain church not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location church=Theme |
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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