Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 47

If even a tiny spark had remained it might set fire to something, and cause great damage.

Who acts: tiny spark, spark · What happens: remain, set, cause · To what, where: fire, great damage

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny spark, spark), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 remained	mark
2	even	even	ADV	_	5 spark	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spark	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spark	amod
5	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remained	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 remained	aux
7	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 set	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 set	aux
10	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 something	case
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 set	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cause	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cause	cc
16	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 set	conj
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 damage	amod
18	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cause	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	a tiny spark			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set	might	spark	fire	to something	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
3	cause	infinitive	spark not said here	great damage		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient

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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