Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 26

The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the confirmed children sang too, holding each other by the hand, for they had no position yet, and they were all equal in the eyes of God.

Who acts: sun, birds, confirmed children · What happens: shine, sing, confirm, hold, have, be · To what, where: each, position, eyes

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, birds, confirmed children), 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	4 shining	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	aux
4	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 singing	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 singing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singing	aux
9	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shining	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sang	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sang	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
13	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 children	amod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sang	nsubj
15	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singing	conj
16	too	too	ADV	_	15 sang	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 holding	punct
18	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shining	advcl
19	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 holding	obj
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 each	fixed
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 hand	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hand	det
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holding	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 had	case
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	parataxis
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 position	det
29	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 equal	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 equal	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 equal	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 equal	cop
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 equal	advmod
36	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 had	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 eyes	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 eyes	det
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 equal	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 God	case
41	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 eyes	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the sun					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the birds					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	confirm	participle						vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	sing speech: express	past	the confirmed children					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	hold	gerund	the sun not said here	each			by the hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location
6	have	past	birds = bird	no position		yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient
7	is	past	birds = bird		the eyes of God		all, equal 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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