The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 45

Instantly the whole meadow resounded to the melodious chiming of a peal of silver bells, and they sounded so pretty that I sat down to listen, and to watch them as they swung shining in the sunbeams.

Who acts: whole meadow, melodious, bells, I, silver bells · What happens: resound, chime, sound, sit down, listen, watch · To what, where: bells, sunbeams

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole meadow, melodious, bells, I), 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	Instantly	instantly	ADV	_	5 resounded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meadow	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meadow	amod
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resounded	nsubj
5	resounded	resound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 melodious	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 melodious	det
8	melodious	melodiou	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 resounded	obl
9	chiming	chime	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 melodious	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 peal	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 peal	det
12	peal	peal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chiming	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 bells	case
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bells	compound
15	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 peal	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sounded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sounded	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sounded	nsubj
19	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 resounded	parataxis
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 pretty	advmod
21	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	19 sounded	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sat	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sounded	advcl
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 sat	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 listen	mark
27	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 watch	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 watch	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 watch	mark
31	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 listen	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 watch	obj
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 swung	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 swung	nsubj
35	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 watch	advcl
36	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 swung	xcomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 sunbeams	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sunbeams	det
39	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 shining	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 resounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	resound	participle	the whole meadow			to the melodious; instantly property	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chime	gerund	the melodious not said here			of a peal of silver bells	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sound	past	bells = bell			pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	sit down	past	I			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	listen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	watch	to-infinitive	I not said here	bells = bell			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	swing	past	bells = bell				tree rules
8	shine	gerund	bells = bell not said here		the sunbeams		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunbeam=Location
9	peal		silver bells				nom peal «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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