Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 12

One of them wrote verses about the bell, and said that it was like the voice of a mother speaking to an intelligent and beloved child; no tune, he said, was sweeter than the sound of the bell.

Who acts: One, bell, mother, tune · What happens: write, say, be, speak · To what, where: verses · 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 (One, bell, mother, tune), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 wrote	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 bell	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 verses	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrote	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 voice	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 voice	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 voice	cop
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 voice	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 voice	det
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mother	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mother	det
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 voice	nmod
21	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 mother	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	27 child	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 child	det
24	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 child	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 beloved	cc
26	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 intelligent	conj
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 speaking	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 tune	det
30	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tune	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrote	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sweeter	punct
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sweeter	cop
36	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 said	ccomp
37	than	than	ADP	_	39 sound	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sound	det
39	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sweeter	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 bell	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bell	det
42	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sound	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	One of persons	verses	about the bell	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent verse=Recipient about bell=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	One of persons not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	bell		like the voice; of a mother	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	gerund	a mother not said here		to a intelligent child	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to child=Co-Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	no tune			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past			than the sound of the bell; sweet property	tree rules

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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