Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 21
Every Sunday there sounded forth from a church close by the tones of an organ and the singing of the congregation.
Who acts: Sunday · What happens: sound, intonate, sing · To what, where: church, organ, congregation
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunday), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Sunday | det |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sounded | advmod |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 sounded | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 church | det |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | obl |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 church | amod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 tones | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tones | det |
| 12 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 close | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 organ | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 organ | det |
| 15 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tones | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 singing | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 singing | det |
| 18 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 organ | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 congregation | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 congregation | det |
| 21 | congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 singing | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | every Sunday | a church; there | forth property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | intonate | a organ and the singing of the congregation | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | sing | the congregation | nom singing «act 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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