Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 43
But the deep sounds of the bell were much stronger; soon it seemed to him as if an organ played an accompaniment--the sound came from the left, from the side where the heart is.
Who acts: deep sounds, it, organ, sound, heart · What happens: be, seem, play, come · To what, where: other, accompaniment, left
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 (deep sounds, it, organ, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stronger | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sounds | det |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | amod |
| 4 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stronger | nsubj |
| 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 sounds | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stronger | cop |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 stronger | advmod |
| 10 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 seemed | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stronger | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seemed | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 played | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 played | mark |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 organ | det |
| 20 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 played | nsubj |
| 21 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seemed | advcl |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 accompaniment | det |
| 23 | accompaniment | accompaniment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 played | obj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sound | det |
| 26 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seemed | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 left | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 left | det |
| 30 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 side | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 side | det |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 is | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 heart | det |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 is | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 side | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the deep sounds of the bell | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | other | soon property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | play | past | a organ | a accompaniment | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accompaniment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the sound | the left | from the side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from left=Initial_Location from side=Destination | |||
| 5 | be | present | the heart | vn exist-47.1 «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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