Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 38

While they were both in pleasant mood, wending their way homewards, and the uncle whistling the tune of a song he had learnt in his young days, they suddenly heard a peculiar sound which seemed to come from the top of the mountain.

Who acts: danger, pleasant mood, uncle, peculiar sound · What happens: be, wend, whistle, learn, hear, seem · To what, where: pleasant mood, way homewards, tune, song, peculiar sound, top

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, pleasant mood, uncle, peculiar sound), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	7 mood	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mood	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mood	cop
4	both	both	ADV	_	7 mood	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mood	case
6	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mood	amod
7	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wending	punct
9	wending	wend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mood	acl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 homewards	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 homewards	compound
12	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wending	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 uncle	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 uncle	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 uncle	det
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mood	conj
17	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 uncle	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tune	det
19	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whistling	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 song	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 song	det
22	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tune	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 learnt	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 learnt	aux
25	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 song	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 days	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 days	nmod:poss
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 days	amod
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 learnt	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mood	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
32	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	33 heard	advmod
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sound	det
35	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sound	compound
36	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obj
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 seemed	nsubj
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sound	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 come	mark
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 seemed	xcomp
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 top	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 top	det
43	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 mountain	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 mountain	det
46	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 top	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	danger		pleasant mood and the uncle		both property	tree rules
2	wend	gerund	pleasant mood and the uncle not said here	danger's way homewards				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location homeward=Theme
3	whistle	gerund	the uncle not said here	the tune of a song				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic
4	learn	past · perfect	uncle	a song not said here		day		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic
5	hear	past	danger	a peculiar sound			suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
6	seem	past	a peculiar sound					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	come	to-infinitive	a peculiar sound not said here		the top of the mountain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from top=Initial_Location

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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