Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 60

Then the sun set, the clouds were as red as fire; it became quiet in the wood; he sank down on his knees, sang an evening hymn and said: "I shall never find what I am looking for!

Who acts: clouds, sun set, son · What happens: be, become, sink down, sing, say, not find · To what, where: wood, knees, evening hymn · 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 (clouds, sun set, son), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 became	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 set	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	compound
4	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 red	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clouds	det
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 red	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 red	cop
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 red	advmod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 fire	case
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 red	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 became	nsubj
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 became	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 sank	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sank	nsubj
22	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 became	advcl
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 sank	compound:prt
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 knees	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 knees	nmod:poss
26	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sank	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sang	punct
28	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sank	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hymn	det
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hymn	compound
31	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sang	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sank	conj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 find	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 find	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 find	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 find	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 find	advmod
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 said	ccomp
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 looking	obl
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 looking	nsubj
42	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 looking	aux
43	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 find	ccomp
44	for	for	ADP	_	43 looking	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the clouds				as fire; red property	tree rules
2	become	past	the sun set			then	in the wood result; quiet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wood=Result
3	sink down	past	son		son's knees			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	sing speech: express	past	son not said here	a evening hymn				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
5	say speech: express	past	son not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not find in a quote	shall	son					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	look in a quote	present · progressive	son					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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