Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 122
Here were music and singing of all descriptions: hand-organs, trumpets, shouting, and noise.
What happens: be, sing, shout · To what, where: music
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.
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 music | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 music | cop |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 singing | cc |
| 5 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 music | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 descriptions | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 descriptions | det |
| 8 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 singing | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 organs | punct |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 organs | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 12 | organs | organ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 descriptions | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trumpets | punct |
| 14 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 organs | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shouting | punct |
| 16 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 organs | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 noise | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 noise | cc |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 organs | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 music | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | music | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | of all descriptions | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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