Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 96

The young married pair often sat together hand in hand; he would talk, but she could only now and then let fall a word in the same melodious voice, the same bell-like tones.

Who acts: young married pair, gilding · What happens: sit, talk, let, fall · To what, where: hand, word, same melodious voice

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young married pair, gilding), 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	4 pair	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pair	amod
3	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pair	amod
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 sat	advmod
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 sat	advmod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 hand	case
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talk	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 talk	aux
14	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sat	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 could	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	conj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 now	advmod
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 could	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 let	advmod
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
24	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 word	det
26	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fall	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 voice	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 voice	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 voice	amod
30	melodious	melodious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 voice	amod
31	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fall	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tones	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tones	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tones	amod
35	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 like	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 bell	punct
37	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tones	amod
38	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 voice	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the young married pair	hand	hand		often, together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Location
2	talk	would	gilding					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let	past	the young married pair not said here			then		tree rules
4	fall	infinitive	the young married pair not said here	a word	the same melodious voice			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient word=Result

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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