Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 117
Amidst the fire lay an egg, red hot, which presently burst with a loud report, and out flew a young bird.
Who acts: Amidst · What happens: lie, burst, fly · To what, where: egg, young bird
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 (Amidst), 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 | Amidst | Amidst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fire | det |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Amidst | appos |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 egg | det |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hot | punct |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hot | amod |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 egg | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 burst | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 burst | obj |
| 12 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 13 burst | advmod |
| 13 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hot | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 report | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 report | det |
| 16 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 report | amod |
| 17 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burst | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flew | cc |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bird | amod |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flew | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Amidst | a egg | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burst | present | Amidst not said here | with a loud report; presently property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent which=Patient with report=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | Amidst not said here | a young bird | out property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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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