Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 46

And when the ringing voice ceased, there was just such a reverberation as you may have heard within a great church bell, for a moment or two after the stroke of the hammer.

Who acts: ringing voice, reverberation, you · What happens: cease, be, hear, stroke · To what, where: reverberation, hammer

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (ringing voice, reverberation, you), 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	_	6 ceased	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 ceased	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voice	det
4	ringing	ringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 voice	compound
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ceased	nsubj
6	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ceased	conj
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 reverberation	advmod
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 reverberation	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 reverberation	det
13	reverberation	reverberation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 heard	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 reverberation	acl:relcl
19	within	within	ADP	_	23 bell	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bell	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bell	amod
22	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bell	compound
23	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 moment	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 moment	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 moment	det
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obl:unmarked
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 two	cc
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 moment	conj
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 stroke	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stroke	det
32	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 moment	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 hammer	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hammer	det
35	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stroke	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	participle	the ringing voice					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	be	past	such reverberation		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	may · perfect	you	such reverberation not said here		moment	within a great church bell	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reverberation=Stimulus
4	stroke			the hammer				nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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