Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 90
The Tree trembled so in every bough that one of the tapers set fire to the foliage.
Who acts: Tree, one · What happens: tremble, set · To what, where: bough, fire
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 (Tree, one), 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 Tree | det |
| 2 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | nsubj |
| 3 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 trembled | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bough | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 bough | det |
| 7 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 set | mark |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 set | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tapers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tapers | det |
| 12 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trembled | advcl |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 foliage | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foliage | det |
| 17 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | the Tree | every bough | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bough=Location | ||||
| 2 | set | past | one of the tapers | fire | to the foliage | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
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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