Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 22
Then bells sounded in the large white building, and a number of young girls came into the garden.
Who acts: bells, number · What happens: sound, come · To what, where: large white building, garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells, number), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 building | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 building | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 building | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 building | amod |
| 8 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 girls | case |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girls | amod |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 number | nmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounded | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | bells | the large white building | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in building=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | a number of young girls | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_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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