Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 91

The church bells were ringing, and from the high towers sounded a flourish of trumpets; and soldiers, with flying colors and glittering bayonets, lined the rocks through which they passed.

Who acts: church bells, high towers, soldiers · What happens: ring, sound, fly, glitter, line, pass · To what, where: flourish, colors, rocks, trumpets

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church bells, high towers, soldiers), 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	3 bells	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bells	compound
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ringing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ringing	aux
5	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sounded	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sounded	cc
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 towers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 towers	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 towers	amod
11	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sounded	nsubj
12	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ringing	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 flourish	det
14	flourish	flourish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sounded	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 trumpets	case
16	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flourish	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 soldiers	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 soldiers	cc
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lined	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bayonets	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	26 bayonets	case
22	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 bayonets	amod
23	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flying	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 glittering	cc
25	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 flying	conj
26	bayonets	bayonet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 soldiers	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 soldiers	punct
28	lined	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ringing	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rocks	det
30	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lined	obj
31	through	through	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 passed	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 passed	nsubj
34	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 rocks	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ringing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ring	past · progressive	the church bells			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sound	past	the high towers	a flourish of trumpets		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flourish=Theme
3	fly	gerund		colors		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location color=Theme
4	glitter	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	line	past	soldiers and flying bayonets	the rocks		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Destination
6	pass	past	soldiers = soldier		the rocks	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location
7	flourish			trumpets		nom flourish «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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