Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 34
Out of the tree poured sparks like flames of fire; these were the ideas and thoughts, borrowed from others, which they had used, and which now got free and rushed away like so many fireworks.
Who acts: these, fire · What happens: pour, be, borrow, use, get, rush away · To what, where: sparks, tree, ideas, others
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, fire), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Out | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poured | obl |
| 5 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 poured | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 flames | case |
| 8 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sparks | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flames | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ideas | punct |
| 12 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 ideas | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ideas | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ideas | det |
| 15 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 poured | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thoughts | cc |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ideas | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 borrowed | punct |
| 19 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ideas | acl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 others | case |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 borrowed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 used | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 used | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 used | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 used | aux |
| 26 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 others | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 got | cc |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 got | nsubj |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 got | advmod |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 poured | conj |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 got | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rushed | cc |
| 34 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 got | xcomp |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 rushed | advmod |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 fireworks | case |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 many | advmod |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fireworks | amod |
| 39 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rushed | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | sparks | the tree | like flames of fire | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent spark=Theme out tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | these | the ideas and thoughts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | borrow | participle | the ideas and thoughts not said here | others | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from other=Source | ||||
| 4 | use | past · perfect · passive | others | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | get | past | now | free property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | rush away | participle | like many fireworks; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | flame | fire | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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: «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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