Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 39
The bells of the royal convent began to ring, and their melodious harmonies penetrated the heart, powerful and irresistible as a voice from heaven.
Who acts: bells, melodious harmonies · What happens: begin, ring, penetrate · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells, melodious harmonies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 bells | det |
| 2 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 began | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 convent | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 convent | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 convent | amod |
| 6 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bells | nmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ring | mark |
| 9 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 penetrated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 penetrated | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 harmonies | nmod:poss |
| 13 | melodious | melodious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 harmonies | amod |
| 14 | harmonies | harmony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 penetrated | nsubj |
| 15 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 penetrated | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 powerful | punct |
| 19 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 penetrated | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 irresistible | cc |
| 21 | irresistible | irresistible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 powerful | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 voice | det |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 powerful | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 heaven | case |
| 26 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 voice | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the bells of the royal convent | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ring | to-infinitive | the bells of the royal convent not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | penetrate | past | bells's melodious harmonies | the heart | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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