Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 2

The evening bell is ringing," people used to say; "the sun is setting!"

Who acts: evening bell, people, sun · What happens: ring, use, say, set · 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 (evening bell, people, sun), 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 bell	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	compound
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ringing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ringing	aux
5	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 setting	csubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ringing	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ringing	punct
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ringing	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 used	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 setting	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 setting	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 setting	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 setting	aux
17	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 setting	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 setting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	ring	present · progressive	the evening bell	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use in a quote	past	people	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	set	present · progressive	the sun	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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