Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 116
The dry twigs around the nest crackled and smoked till the flames burst forth and consumed the phoenix to ashes.
Who acts: dry twigs · What happens: crackle, smoke, burst, consume · To what, where: dry twigs, phoenix
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dry twigs), 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 twigs | det |
| 2 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 twigs | amod |
| 3 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 burst | nsubj |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 nest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nest | det |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twigs | nmod |
| 7 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 twigs | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smoked | cc |
| 9 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 crackled | conj |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 flames | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flames | det |
| 12 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 smoked | obl |
| 13 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 burst | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 consumed | cc |
| 16 | consumed | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 burst | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 phoenix | det |
| 18 | phoenix | phoenix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consumed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ashes | case |
| 20 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 consumed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crackle | participle | the dry twigs around the nest not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | smoke | participle | till the flames | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | burst | present | the dry twigs around the nest | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | consume | past | the dry twigs around the nest not said here | the phoenix | to ashes | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phoenix=Asset |
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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