Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 4
It seemed as though the sound came from a church, deep in the calm, fragrant wood, and thither people looked with devout feelings.
Who acts: It, sound, people · What happens: seem, come, look · To what, where: church
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 (It, sound, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 2 seemed | advmod |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 church | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deep | punct |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 church | amod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 15 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wood | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calm | punct |
| 17 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wood | amod |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deep | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 21 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 23 looked | advmod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 feelings | case |
| 25 | devout | devout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feelings | amod |
| 26 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 looked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the sound | a church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | past | people | with devout feelings; thither property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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