Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 40
All agreed that it must be so, except one who said that the bell was too small and too thin to be heard at such a distance, and that it had quite a different sound to that which had so touched men's hearts.
Who acts: gable, bell, different sound · What happens: agree, be, say, hear, have, touch · To what, where: different sound, hearts · 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 (gable, bell, different sound), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 said | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 one | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 said | advcl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 small | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bell | det |
| 15 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 small | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 small | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 small | advmod |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thin | cc |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 thin | advmod |
| 21 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 small | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 heard | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 heard | aux:pass |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 thin | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 distance | case |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 distance | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 distance | det |
| 28 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 had | cc |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 had | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 had | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 34 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 sound | det:predet |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 sound | det |
| 36 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sound | amod |
| 37 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 that | case |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 sound | nmod |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 had | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sound | parataxis |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 touched | advmod |
| 43 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 men | amod |
| 44 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 men | case |
| 46 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 had | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | must | gable | except one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the bell | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the bell not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | hear | to-infinitive · passive | the bell not said here | at such distance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | ||||
| 7 | have | past | gable | quite different sound | to that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | |||
| 8 | have | past | quite different sound | touched men's hearts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 9 | touch | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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