Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 69
And they ran towards each other and took one another's hand, in the great cathedral of nature and poesy, and above them sounded the invisible holy bell; happy spirits surrounded them, singing hallelujahs and rejoicing.
Who acts: colours · What happens: run, take, sound, surround, sing · To what, where: each, one, great cathedral, invisible holy bell, happy spirits, hallelujahs
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 (colours), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 ran | obl |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 another | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cathedral | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cathedral | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cathedral | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cathedral | amod |
| 17 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nature | case |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cathedral | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 poesy | cc |
| 21 | poesy | poesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nature | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sounded | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sounded | cc |
| 24 | above | above | ADP | _ | 26 sounded | mark |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sounded | nsubj |
| 26 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bell | det |
| 28 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bell | amod |
| 29 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bell | amod |
| 30 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sounded | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 surrounded | punct |
| 32 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 spirits | amod |
| 33 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 surrounded | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 singing | punct |
| 37 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 surrounded | advcl |
| 38 | hallelujahs | hallelujah | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 singing | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 rejoicing | cc |
| 40 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hallelujahs | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | colours = colour | each | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards each=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | past | colours = colour not said here | one | the great cathedral of nature and poesy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument one=Theme hand=Destination | |||
| 3 | sound | past | colours = colour | the invisible holy bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | ||||
| 4 | surround | participle · passive | happy spirits | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | hallelujahs and rejoicing | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hallelujah=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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