Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 1

* Herostratus, or Eratostratus--an Ephesian, who wantonly set fire to the famous temple of Diana, in order to commemorate his name by so uncommon an action.

Who acts: Diana · What happens: set, commemorate, name · To what, where: Herostratus, name

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diana), 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	*	*	PUNCT	_	2 Herostratus	punct
2	Herostratus	herostratus	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Eratostratus	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 Eratostratus	cc
5	Eratostratus	Eratostratus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Herostratus	appos
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 Ephesian	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Ephesian	det
8	Ephesian	Ephesian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Eratostratus	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 set	nsubj
11	wantonly	wantonly	ADV	_	12 set	advmod
12	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 temple	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 temple	det
16	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 temple	amod
17	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Diana	case
19	Diana	Diana	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 temple	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 commemorate	punct
21	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 commemorate	mark
22	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 in	fixed
23	to	to	PART	_	24 commemorate	mark
24	commemorate	commemorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 set	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 name	nmod:poss
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 commemorate	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	31 action	case
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 uncommon	advmod
29	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 action	amod
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 action	det
31	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 commemorate	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past		Herostratus	to the famous temple of Diana; wantonly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
2	commemorate	to-infinitive		Diana's name	by a uncommon action	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
3	name		Diana			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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