Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 29
Then suddenly the sound of the bell was heard so beautifully and solemnly from the wood that four or five made up their minds to go still further on.
Who acts: that · What happens: hear, make up, mind, go · To what, where: sound, wood
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 (that), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 heard | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 sound | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bell | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bell | det |
| 7 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 beautifully | advmod |
| 11 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 9 heard | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 solemnly | cc |
| 13 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 11 beautifully | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 minds | nsubj |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 minds | nummod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 five | cc |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 four | conj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 minds | amod |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 made | compound:prt |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 minds | nmod:poss |
| 24 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wood | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 minds | acl |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 28 | further | further | ADV | _ | 29 on | advmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the sound of the bell | the wood | then | beautifully property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from wood=Source | ||
| 2 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | mind | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | still | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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