Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 1

It is in the hot lands that the sun burns, sure enough! there the people become quite a mahogany brown, ay, and in the HOTTEST lands they are burnt to Negroes.

Who acts: It, sun, hot lands · What happens: be, burn, become, burnt · To what, where: hot lands, HOTTEST lands, people

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, sun, hot lands), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lands	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lands	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 lands	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lands	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lands	amod
6	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 become	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 burns	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lands	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sure	punct
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 burns	xcomp
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 sure	advmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 burns	punct
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 burns	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 become	nsubj
18	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	21 mahogany	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mahogany	det
21	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brown	obl
22	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 become	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ay	punct
24	ay	ay	INTJ	_	18 become	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lands	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lands	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 lands	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lands	det
29	HOTTEST	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 lands	amod
30	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 become	xcomp
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 burnt	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 burnt	aux:pass
33	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 lands	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 Negroes	case
35	Negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 burnt	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		the hot lands		tree rules
2	burn	present	the sun	the hot lands	there	sure property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	become	present	the hot lands	the HOTTEST lands		brown property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	burnt	present · passive		people		to Negroes	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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