Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 24
In an immense caldron soup was boiling; and rabbits and hares were being roasted on a spit.
What happens: boil, roast · To what, where: rabbits
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 | _ | 5 soup | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 soup | det |
| 3 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soup | amod |
| 4 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soup | compound |
| 5 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boiling | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boiling | aux |
| 7 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 roasted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 roasted | cc |
| 10 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hares | cc |
| 12 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rabbits | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 roasted | aux:pass |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 roasted | aux:pass |
| 15 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 boiling | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 spit | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 spit | det |
| 18 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roasted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 boiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | past · progressive | in a immense caldron soup | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in soup=Instrument | |||||
| 2 | roast | past · passive | rabbits and hares | on a spit | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient on spit=Instrument |
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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