Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 205
The wood flamed up splendidly under the large brewing copper, and it sighed so deeply!
Who acts: wood · What happens: flame up, sigh · To what, where: wood, large brewing copper
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 (wood), 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 wood | det |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | flamed | flame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wood | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 flamed | compound:prt |
| 5 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 3 flamed | advmod |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 copper | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 copper | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 copper | amod |
| 9 | brewing | brewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 copper | compound |
| 10 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flamed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sighed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sighed | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sighed | nsubj |
| 14 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 deeply | advmod |
| 16 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 14 sighed | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flame up | participle | the wood not said here | the large brewing copper | splendidly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under copper=Location | |||
| 2 | sigh | past | the wood | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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