Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 101

And the lights burned down to the very branches, and as they burned down they were put out one after the other, and then the children had permission to plunder the Tree.

Who acts: lights, children · What happens: burn down, put out, have, plunder · To what, where: lights, permission, Tree

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lights, children), 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	_	4 burned	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lights	det
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 burned	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 branches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 branches	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 branches	advmod
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 burned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 burned	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 burned	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 burned	nsubj
14	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 burned	compound:prt
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 put	aux:pass
18	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 burned	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 put	compound:prt
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 put	obj
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 had	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 children	det
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	parataxis
30	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 plunder	mark
32	plunder	plunder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 permission	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Tree	det
34	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 plunder	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	burn down	past	the lights			to the branches; down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn down	past	lights = light				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put out	past · passive		lights = light			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset one=Goal
4	have	past	the children	permission	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
5	plunder	to-infinitive	the children not said here	the Tree			vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Source

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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