Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 118

The sound of these bells is often heard amidst Alpine scenery.

What happens: hear · To what, where: sound

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bells	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 bells	det
5	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sound	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux:pass
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 heard	advmod
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	11 scenery	case
10	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scenery	amod
11	scenery	scenery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · passive		the sound of this bells				amidst Alpine scenery; often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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