Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 40

At the play, he sits in the great chandelier and burns in bright flames, so that people think it is really a flame, but they soon discover it is something else.

Who acts: child, people, chandelier · What happens: sit, burn, think, be, discover · To what, where: play, bright flames, flame, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, people, chandelier), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 play	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 play	det
3	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sits	nsubj
6	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 chandelier	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chandelier	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chandelier	amod
10	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 burns	cc
12	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sits	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 flames	case
14	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flames	amod
15	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 burns	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 think	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 burns	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flame	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 flame	cop
23	really	really	ADV	_	25 flame	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 flame	det
25	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 think	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 discover	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 discover	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 discover	nsubj
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 discover	advmod
30	discover	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sits	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 something	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 something	cop
33	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 discover	obj
34	else	else	ADV	_	33 something	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	child		the play	in the great chandelier	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at play=Location
2	burn	present	child not said here		bright flames		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flame=Location
3	think speech: other	present	people				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	chandelier	a flame			tree rules
5	discover	present	people			soon property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	chandelier	something		else property	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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