Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 160
The road led by the church, and as they passed he could hear the organ playing and the people singing beautifully.
Who acts: road, organ, people · What happens: lead, pass, hear, play, sing · To what, where: road, organ
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, organ, people), 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 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 road | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hear | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hear | aux |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 passed | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 organ | det |
| 16 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hear | obj |
| 17 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 organ | acl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 singing | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 singing | nsubj |
| 21 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 playing | conj |
| 22 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 21 singing | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | the road not said here | by the church | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by church=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | the road | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | could | road | the organ | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer organ=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | play | gerund | the organ not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | the people | beautifully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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