Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 56
These flocks are never seen, yet the tinkle of their little bells has often been heard, as well as their unearthly bleating.
Who acts: little bells · What happens: not see, hear, tinkle · To what, where: flocks, tinkle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 flocks | det |
| 2 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tinkle | det |
| 9 | tinkle | tinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bells | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bells | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bells | amod |
| 13 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tinkle | nmod |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | aux |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 heard | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 heard | aux:pass |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seen | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bleating | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 24 bleating | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bleating | nmod:poss |
| 23 | unearthly | unearthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bleating | amod |
| 24 | bleating | bleating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · passive | this flocks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect · passive | the tinkle of waters's little bells | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tinkle | waters's little bells | nom tinkle «event 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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