Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 89

That was a sight to behold; and when it was beheld, our aunt was heard too, and was saved from burning, for the theatre was not burned down.

Who acts: That · What happens: be, behold, hear, save, burn, not burn down · To what, where: sight, aunt, theatre

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sight	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sight	det
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 behold	case
6	behold	behold	INTJ	_	4 sight	discourse
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 beheld	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beheld	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 beheld	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beheld	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beheld	aux:pass
12	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sight	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 aunt	nmod:poss
15	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux:pass
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 beheld	parataxis
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saved	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saved	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saved	aux:pass
22	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 heard	conj
23	from	from	SCONJ	_	24 burning	mark
24	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 saved	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 burned	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 burned	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 theatre	det
28	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burned	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 burned	aux:pass
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 burned	advmod
31	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 saved	advcl
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 burned	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a sight	tree rules
2	behold	past · passive		sight	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	hear	past · passive		our aunt	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	save	past · passive			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»
5	burn	gerund			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not burn down	past · passive		the theatre	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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