The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 208
The road passed by the church; the organ was sounding, and the people were singing most beautifully.
Who acts: road, organ, people · What happens: pass, sound, sing
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, organ, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sounding | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 organ | det |
| 9 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounding | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sounding | aux |
| 11 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 singing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 singing | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 singing | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 singing | aux |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sounding | conj |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 beautifully | advmod |
| 19 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 17 singing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | the road | by the church | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by church=Location | ||||
| 2 | sound | past · progressive | the organ | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | the people | beautifully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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