Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 54

Once, but long years had intervened since then, guitars and Eolian harps had been hung on his boughs by merry travellers; now they seemed to hang there again, and he could hear their marvellous tones.

Who acts: long years, merry travellers, guitars, cuckoo · What happens: intervene, hang, seem, hear, intonate · To what, where: guitars, boughs, marvellous tones

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 (long years, merry travellers, guitars, cuckoo), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 intervened	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 intervened	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 intervened	cc
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 intervened	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 intervened	aux
7	intervened	intervene	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	since	since	ADP	_	9 then	case
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 intervened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
11	guitars	guitar	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hung	nsubj:pass
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 harps	cc
13	Eolian	eolian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 harps	amod
14	harps	harp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 guitars	conj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hung	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 hung	aux:pass
17	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 intervened	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 boughs	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 boughs	nmod:poss
20	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hung	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 travellers	case
22	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 travellers	amod
23	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hung	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 seemed	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hung	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hang	mark
29	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 hang	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 hang	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hear	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hear	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hear	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hear	aux
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	conj
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tones	nmod:poss
38	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tones	amod
39	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 hear	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 intervened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	intervene	past · perfect	long years				once property	tree rules
2	hang	past · perfect · passive	merry travellers	guitars and Eolian harps	cuckoo's boughs			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on bough=Destination
3	seem	past	guitars = guitar			now		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	hang	to-infinitive	guitars = guitar not said here		there	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	could	cuckoo	guitars's marvellous tones				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus
6	intonate		guitars = guitar					nom tone «communication 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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