Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 35

They played at 'the stick burns,' and the young poets played at 'heart-burns,' and the witlings played off their jests, and the jests rolled away with a thundering sound, as if empty pots were being shattered against doors. '

Who acts: sparks, stick, witlings, jests · What happens: play, burn, play off, roll away, thunder, shatter · To what, where: young poets, heart burns, jests, empty pots

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 (sparks, stick, witlings, jests), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 burns	case
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 burns	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burns	nsubj
7	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 played	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burns	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 burns	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 poets	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 poets	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 poets	amod
13	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burns	conj
14	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 poets	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	19 burns	case
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 burns	punct
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 burns	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 heart	punct
19	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 played	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 played	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 played	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 played	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 witlings	det
24	witlings	witling	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 played	nsubj
25	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 played	conj
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 played	compound:prt
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 jests	nmod:poss
28	jests	jest	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 played	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rolled	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rolled	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 jests	det
32	jests	jest	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rolled	nsubj
33	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 played	parataxis
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 rolled	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 sound	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sound	det
37	thundering	thunder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 sound	amod
38	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rolled	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 shattered	punct
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 shattered	mark
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 shattered	mark
42	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pots	amod
43	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 shattered	nsubj:pass
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 shattered	aux:pass
45	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 shattered	aux:pass
46	shattered	shatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 rolled	conj
47	against	against	ADP	_	48 doors	case
48	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 shattered	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 played	punct
50	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past	sparks = spark				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burn	present	the stick				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	participle		the young poets not said here	heart burns		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play off	past	the witlings	sparks's jests			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jest=Theme
5	roll away	past	the jests			with a thundering sound; away property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sound=Theme
6	thunder	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	shatter a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		empty pots		against doors	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	jest		sparks = spark				nom jest «communication intransitive»: 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: «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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