Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 48
A chord was loosened, and tones of sorrow burst forth.
Who acts: tones · What happens: loosen, burst, intonate · To what, where: chord, sorrow
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 (tones), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chord | det |
| 2 | chord | chord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loosened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loosened | aux:pass |
| 4 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 burst | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 burst | cc |
| 7 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 burst | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sorrow | case |
| 9 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tones | nmod |
| 10 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 loosened | conj |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 burst | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past · passive | a chord | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | burst | present | tones of sorrow | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | intonate | sorrow | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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