Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 103

And now we are by the smithy, where the fire is blazing, and where the half-naked men are banging with their hammers till the sparks fly about.

Who acts: we, fire, naked men, sparks · What happens: be, blaze, bang, fly

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, fire, naked men, sparks), 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	_	7 smithy	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 smithy	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 smithy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smithy	cop
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 smithy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smithy	det
7	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blazing	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 blazing	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blazing	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 blazing	aux
13	blazing	blaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 smithy	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 banging	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 banging	cc
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 banging	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 men	det
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	20 naked	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 half	punct
20	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 men	amod
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 banging	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 banging	aux
23	banging	bang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 blazing	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 hammers	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hammers	nmod:poss
26	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 banging	obl
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 fly	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sparks	det
29	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fly	nsubj
30	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 banging	advcl
31	about	about	ADV	_	30 fly	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 smithy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we	now	by the smithy	tree rules
2	blaze	present · progressive	the fire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bang	present · progressive	the naked men		with hens's hammers	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hammer=Theme
4	fly	present	the sparks		about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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