Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 45
The church bells were silent; the last tone floated away with the last red glimmer on the evening clouds. "
Who acts: church bells, last tone · What happens: be, float away
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. 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, last tone), 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 silent | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | cop |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 floated | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tone | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tone | amod |
| 9 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floated | nsubj |
| 10 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 floated | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 glimmer | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 glimmer | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 glimmer | amod |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 glimmer | amod |
| 16 | glimmer | glimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floated | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 clouds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clouds | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clouds | compound |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glimmer | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 silent | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the church bells | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float away | past | the last tone | with the last red glimmer on the evening clouds; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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