Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 3

Those who walked outside the town, where the houses were less crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields, saw the evening sky much better, and heard the sound of the bell much more clearly.

Who acts: Those, houses · What happens: walk, be, intersperse, see, hear · To what, where: town, evening sky, 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 (Those, houses), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 walked	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crowded	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 crowded	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 houses	det
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crowded	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crowded	cop
12	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 crowded	advmod
13	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 interspersed	cc
15	interspersed	intersperse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 crowded	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 gardens	case
17	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 interspersed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fields	cc
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fields	amod
20	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gardens	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sky	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sky	compound
25	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 better	advmod
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 saw	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heard	cc
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sound	det
32	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heard	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 bell	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bell	det
35	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sound	nmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	37 more	advmod
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 clearly	advmod
38	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	30 heard	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Those		the town		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside town=Trajectory
2	is	past	the houses			crowded, less property	tree rules
3	intersperse	participle	the houses not said here			by gardens and little fields	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	see	past		the evening sky		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus
5	hear	past		the sound of the bell		clearly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=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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