Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 13

The emperor of the country heard of it, and declared that he who would really find out where the sound came from should receive the title of "Bellringer to the World," even if there was no bell at all.

Who acts: emperor, sound · What happens: hear, declare, find out, come, receive, be · To what, where: title, bell, all, Bellringer · 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 (emperor, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 emperor	det
2	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 emperor	nmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 declared	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 declared	cc
11	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 find	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 find	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 find	advmod
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 declared	ccomp
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 find	compound:prt
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 came	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sound	det
21	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 find	advcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 receive	case
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 receive	aux
25	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 came	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 title	det
27	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 receive	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Bellringer	case
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Bellringer	punct
30	Bellringer	Bellringer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 title	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 World	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 World	det
33	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 receive	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bell	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 bell	punct
36	even	even	ADV	_	39 was	advmod
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 was	mark
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 was	expl
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bell	cop
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 bell	det
41	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 receive	parataxis
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 all	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 bell	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the emperor of the country			of country	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
2	declare speech: other	past	the emperor of the country not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	find out	would	emperor				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the sound				tree rules
5	receive	should	the sound not said here	the title of Bellringer		to the World	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme
6	is a	past		no bell	all		tree rules
7	title			Bellringer			nom title «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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