Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 11

Three persons declared that they had gone as far as the end of the wood; they had always heard the strange sound, but there it seemed to them as if it came from the town.

Who acts: Three persons, persons, it, sound · What happens: declare, go, hear, seem, come · To what, where: persons, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three persons, persons, it, sound), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 persons	nummod
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 declared	nsubj
3	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 gone	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 declared	ccomp
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 gone	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 far	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 heard	advmod
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 declared	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sound	det
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sound	amod
23	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 seemed	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 seemed	expl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 declared	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seemed	advcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 town	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 town	det
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	Three persons					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	persons = person				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past · perfect · passive		persons = person			always property	tree rules
4	seem	past	it		persons = person	there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	sound			the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=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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