Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 28

When the others arrived at the willow trees, where the confectioner had put up his stall, they said: "Now we are out here; the bell does not in reality exist--it is only something that people imagine!"

Who acts: others, trees, we, bell, stall, people · What happens: arrive, put up, say, be, not do, exist · To what, where: willow trees, confectioner, reality, something · 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 (others, trees, we, bell), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 arrived	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
7	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 put	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 confectioner	det
12	confectioner	confectioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 put	aux
14	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 trees	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 stall	nmod:poss
17	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 here	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 here	punct
23	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 here	advmod
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 here	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 here	cop
26	out	out	ADV	_	27 here	advmod
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 said	ccomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 does	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bell	det
30	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 does	nsubj
31	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 does	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 reality	case
34	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 exist	obl
35	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 does	conj
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 something	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 something	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 something	cop
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 something	advmod
40	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 does	obl
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 imagine	obj
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 imagine	nsubj
43	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 something	acl:relcl
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 something	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the others		the willow trees			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put up	past · perfect · passive		the confectioner				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset stall=Goal
3	say speech: express	past	trees = tree					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	we			now	here, out property	tree rules
5	not do in a quote	present	the bell					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	exist in a quote	present	the bell not said here		reality			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reality=Location
7	is a in a quote	present	stall	something				tree rules
8	imagine in a quote	present	people					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme

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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