Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 245

We have often seen, when a sunbeam burst through a crack in the door into a dusty room, how a whirling column of dust seems to circle round.

Who acts: We, sunbeam, whirling column · What happens: see, burst, whirl, seem, circle · To what, where: crack

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sunbeam, whirling column), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 burst	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 burst	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sunbeam	det
8	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burst	nsubj
9	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	parataxis
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 crack	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crack	det
12	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burst	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burst	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 room	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 room	det
18	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 room	amod
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burst	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seems	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 seems	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 column	det
23	whirling	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 column	amod
24	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seems	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 dust	case
26	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 column	nmod
27	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 burst	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 circle	mark
29	circle	circle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seems	xcomp
30	round	round	ADV	_	29 circle	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	We		often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	burst	past	a sunbeam	a crack	in the door; into a dusty room	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crack=Location
3	whirl	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	present	a whirling column of dust			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	circle	to-infinitive	a whirling column of dust not said here		round property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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