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The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 235

Bells were pealing, chimes ringing, and the people filling the streets and standing at their doors to watch the procession go by, and they could hardly believe their eyes as they saw what a strange bride their Prince had chosen.

Who acts: Bells, chimes, procession, people · What happens: peal, ring, fill, stand, watch, go by · To what, where: chimes, streets, doors, procession, eyes, strange bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bells, chimes, procession, 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

nsubjauxpunctobjaclpunctccdetnsubjcsubjdetobjccconjcasenmod:possoblmarkadvcldetobjxcompoblpunctccnsubjauxadvmodadvclnmod:possobjmarknsubjconjobjdetamodnsubj:passnmod:possapposauxccomppunctrootBellsNOUNwereAUXpealingVERB,PUNCTchimesNOUNringingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETpeopleNOUNfillingVERBtheDETstreetsNOUNandCCONJstandingVERBatADPtheirPRONdoorsNOUNtoPARTwatchVERBtheDETprocessionNOUNgoVERBbyADP,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONcouldAUXhardlyADVbelieveVERBtheirPRONeyesNOUNasSCONJtheyPRONsawVERBwhatPRONaDETstrangeADJbrideNOUNtheirPRONPrincePROPNhadAUXchosenVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BellsbellNOUNNumber=Plur3 pealingnsubj
2werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 pealingaux
3pealingpealVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
4,,PUNCT_5 chimespunct
5chimeschimeNOUNNumber=Plur3 pealingobj
6ringingringVERBVerbForm=Ger5 chimesacl
7,,PUNCT_35 sawpunct
8andandCCONJ_35 sawcc
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 peopledet
10peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur35 sawnsubj
11fillingfillVERBVerbForm=Ger35 sawcsubj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 streetsdet
13streetsstreetNOUNNumber=Plur11 fillingobj
14andandCCONJ_15 standingcc
15standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger11 fillingconj
16atatADP_18 doorscase
17theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 doorsnmod:poss
18doorsdoorNOUNNumber=Plur15 standingobl
19totoPART_20 watchmark
20watchwatchVERBVerbForm=Inf15 standingadvcl
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 processiondet
22processionprocessionNOUNNumber=Sing20 watchobj
23gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf20 watchxcomp
24bybyADP_23 goobl
25,,PUNCT_30 believepunct
26andandCCONJ_30 believecc
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 believensubj
28couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 believeaux
29hardlyhardlyADV_30 believeadvmod
30believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf11 fillingadvcl
31theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 eyesnmod:poss
32eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur30 believeobj
33asasSCONJ_35 sawmark
34theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs35 sawnsubj
35sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 pealingconj
36whatwhatPRONPronType=Int43 chosenobj
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 bridedet
38strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos39 brideamod
39bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing43 chosennsubj:pass
40theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 Princenmod:poss
41PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing39 brideappos
42hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin43 chosenaux
43chosenchooseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass35 sawccomp
44..PUNCT_3 pealingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pealpast · progressiveBellschimesvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chime=Theme
2ringgerundchimes not said herevn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3fillgerundthe streetsvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent street=Patient
4standgerundpeople's doorsvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
5watchto-infinitivethe processiontree rules
6go byinfinitivethe procession not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7believecouldBells = bellpeople's eyeshardly propertyvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
8seepastthe peoplevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9choosepast · perfect · passivea strange bridevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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