Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 6
All the church bells rung, and the heralds rode about the town proclaiming the betrothal.
Who acts: church, heralds · What happens: bell, ride, proclaim · To what, where: rung, betrothal
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, heralds), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 church | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 church | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bells | nsubj |
| 4 | bells | bell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rung | rung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bells | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heralds | det |
| 9 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bells | parataxis |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl |
| 14 | proclaiming | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rode | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 betrothal | det |
| 16 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 proclaiming | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bell | present | all church | rung | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | the heralds | about the town | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | proclaim | gerund | the heralds not said here | the betrothal | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent betrothal=Theme |
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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