Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 20

The sun shone most brightly; and the sound of the great unknown bell was heard more distinctly than ever.

Who acts: sun · What happens: shine, hear · To what, where: sound

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 (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	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 brightly	advmod
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 bell	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bell	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bell	amod
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bell	amod
14	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sound	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux:pass
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shone	conj
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 distinctly	advmod
18	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 distinctly	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun					brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past · passive		the sound of the great unknown bell				distinctly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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