Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 46
The tree had, doubtless, a kind of feeling that the festive time had arrived, and in his dream fancied he heard the bells ringing from all the churches round, and yet it seemed to him to be a beautiful summer's day, mild and warm.
Who acts: tree, festive time, cuckoo, bells, it · What happens: have, arrive, fancy, hear, ring, seem · To what, where: kind, dream, bells, churches, cuckoo, day
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, festive time, cuckoo, 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 | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 doubtless | punct |
| 5 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doubtless | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 feeling | case |
| 10 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 arrived | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | festive | festive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 arrived | aux |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 kind | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fancied | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fancied | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dream | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dream | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fancied | obl |
| 22 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fancied | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bells | det |
| 26 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 heard | obj |
| 27 | ringing | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 bells | acl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 churches | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 churches | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 churches | det |
| 31 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ringing | obl |
| 32 | round | round | ADV | _ | 27 ringing | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 seemed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 seemed | cc |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 37 seemed | advmod |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 seemed | nsubj |
| 37 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 seemed | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 day | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 day | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 summer | det |
| 43 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 summer | amod |
| 44 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 day | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 summer | case |
| 46 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seemed | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 mild | punct |
| 48 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 day | amod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 warm | cc |
| 50 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 mild | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the tree | doubtless property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past · perfect | the festive time | a kind of feeling not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fancy | past | the tree not said here | cuckoo's dream | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | cuckoo | the bells | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | ring | gerund | the bells not said here | all churches | round property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | seem | past | it | cuckoo | yet | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | a beautiful summer's day | summer | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | dream | cuckoo | nom dream «cognition 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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