Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 36

Strange men came in and placed the lid of the coffin over the dead, and drove the nails firmly in; while the blows of the hammer resounded through the house, and echoed in the hearts that were bleeding.

Who acts: Strange men, hearts, hammer · What happens: come in, place, drive, resound, echo, bleed · To what, where: blows, lid, dead, nails, hammer, house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strange men, hearts, hammer), 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	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 men	amod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 placed	cc
6	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lid	det
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 coffin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coffin	det
11	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lid	nmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 dead	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dead	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 placed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drove	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drove	cc
17	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nails	det
19	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 drove	obj
20	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	17 drove	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	17 drove	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 blows	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 blows	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 blows	det
25	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 hammer	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hammer	det
28	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 blows	nmod
29	resounded	resound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hammer	acl
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 resounded	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 echoed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 echoed	cc
35	echoed	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 hearts	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hearts	det
38	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 echoed	obl
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 bleeding	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bleeding	aux
41	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 hearts	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	Strange men	the blows of the hammer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	place	past	Strange men not said here	the lid of the coffin	the dead		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme over dead=Destination
3	drive	past	Strange men not said here	the nails		firmly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme nail=Trajectory
4	resound	participle		the hammer not said here	the house		vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through house=Location
5	echo	past	Strange men not said here		the hearts		vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location
6	bleed	past · progressive	the hearts				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
7	blow		the hammer				nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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