Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 106

In the night the red flames burst through the window and seized the roof, the dry straw blazed up high, and the whole house, together with the young sparrow, was burned.

Who acts: red flames · What happens: burst, seize, blaze up, burn · To what, where: window, roof, dry straw

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red flames), 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	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burst	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flames	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flames	amod
6	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burst	nsubj
7	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burst	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seized	cc
12	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burst	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roof	det
14	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seized	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 straw	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 straw	det
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 straw	amod
18	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 roof	conj
19	blazed	blaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 straw	acl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 blazed	compound:prt
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 blazed	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 house	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 house	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seized	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 together	punct
28	together	together	ADV	_	12 seized	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 sparrow	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sparrow	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sparrow	amod
32	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seized	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 burned	punct
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 burned	aux:pass
35	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seized	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	present	the red flames		the window	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
2	seize	past	the red flames not said here	the roof and the dry straw			with the young sparrow; the whole house obl; together property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Theme
3	blaze up	participle		the dry straw not said here			high property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burn	past · passive						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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