Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 89

Then I rolled myself in the loose sand, and whirled it in burning columns over their heads.

Who acts: I · What happens: roll, whirl, burn · To what, where: myself, loose sand, desert, columns, heads

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 (I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rolled	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 rolled	nsubj
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 rolled	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sand	det
7	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sand	amod
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whirled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 whirled	cc
11	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolled	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 whirled	obj
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 burning	mark
14	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 whirled	advcl
15	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 burning	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 heads	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heads	nmod:poss
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 burning	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	roll	past	I	myself	the loose sand	then	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in sand=Trajectory
2	whirl	past	I not said here	desert			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	burn	gerund	I not said here	columns	sands's heads		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent column=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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