Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 22

In the midst of the large, old, smoking hall burnt a great fire on the stone floor.

What happens: smoke, burnt · To what, where: great fire, midst

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 midst	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 midst	det
3	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burnt	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	11 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hall	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 large	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 smoking	punct
10	smoking	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hall	amod
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 midst	nmod
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fire	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fire	amod
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burnt	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 floor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floor	det
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 floor	compound
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burnt	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burnt	past		a great fire		the midst of the large smoking hall		on the stone floor	tree rules

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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