Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 98
The church bells were ringing, as if to welcome him to his home with their sweet tones.
Who acts: church bells, bells · What happens: ring, welcome, intonate · To what, where: house
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: who acts (church bells, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bells | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bells | compound |
| 3 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ringing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ringing | aux |
| 5 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 welcome | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 welcome | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 welcome | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 welcome | mark |
| 10 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ringing | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 welcome | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 welcome | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tones | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tones | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tones | amod |
| 18 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 welcome | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past · progressive | the church bells | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | welcome a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | the church bells not said here | house | to house's home; with bells's sweet tones | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | intonate | bells = bell | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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