Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 101

The larger pieces were burnt, and the smaller ones the old woman kept for waxing her thread.

Who acts: old woman, smaller ones · What happens: burnt, woman, keep, wax · To what, where: larger pieces, old woman, thread

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, smaller ones), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pieces	det
2	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pieces	amod
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burnt	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burnt	aux:pass
5	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 woman	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 woman	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ones	det
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 woman	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burnt	obl:agent
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 woman	acl
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 waxing	mark
16	waxing	wax	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 kept	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 thread	nmod:poss
18	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waxing	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive	the old woman	the larger pieces	tree rules
2	woman		the smaller ones		tree rules
3	keep	participle		the old woman not said here	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wax	gerund		woman's thread	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thread=Theme

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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