Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 12

In the middle of the cave an immense fire was burning, and a noble stag, with its branching horns, was placed on a spit between the trunks of two pine-trees.

Who acts: immense fire · What happens: burn, place · To what, where: middle, noble stag, spit

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 (immense 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burning	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cave	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cave	det
6	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
8	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burning	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burning	aux
11	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 placed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 placed	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stag	det
15	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stag	amod
16	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	nsubj:pass
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 horns	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 horns	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horns	nmod:poss
20	branching	branching	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 horns	compound
21	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stag	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 horns	punct
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 placed	aux:pass
24	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 burning	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 spit	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 spit	det
27	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	obl
28	between	between	ADP	_	30 trunks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trunks	det
30	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 spit	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 trees	case
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 trees	nummod
33	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trees	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 pine	punct
35	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 trunks	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 burning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	a immense fire			the middle of the cave			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
2	place	past · passive		a noble stag		a spit between the trunks of two pine trees			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on spit=Destination

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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