Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 35

I don't think that can be the bell," said one of the confirmed children, and then he lay down and listened. "

Who acts: I, bell, way · What happens: not think, be, say, confirm, lie down, listen · To what, where: that, bell · 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 (I, bell, way), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 think	obj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bell	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 bell	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bell	det
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	advcl
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 children	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
16	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 lay	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lay	nsubj
22	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 lay	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 listened	cc
25	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lay	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I	that			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme
2	is a	can		the bell			tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the bell				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	confirm in a quote	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
5	lie down in a quote	past	way		then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	listen in a quote	past	way not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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