Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 44

Outside, the Alps glowed in the evening sunset, the evening bells chimed, and the children of the sunbeam sang, "Whatever happens is best."

Who acts: Alps, children, Whatever · What happens: glow, chime, sing, happen, be · To what, where: evening · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alps, children, Whatever), 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	Outside	outside	ADV	_	5 glowed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Outside	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Alps	det
4	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 glowed	nsubj
5	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 sunset	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sunset	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sunset	compound
9	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glowed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chimed	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 evening	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chimed	nsubj:pass
13	bells	bell	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 chimed	aux:pass
14	chimed	chime	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 glowed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sang	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sang	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 children	det
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sang	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sunbeam	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sunbeam	det
21	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 children	nmod
22	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glowed	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 happens	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 happens	punct
25	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 happens	nsubj
26	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sang	ccomp
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 best	cop
28	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 happens	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glowed	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 glowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	the Alps		sunset	outside property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	chime	present · passive		the evening			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the children of the sunbeam				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen in a quote	present	Whatever				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	present				good property	tree rules

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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