Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 19
It's burning with a bright flame!"
Who acts: missie · What happens: burn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (missie), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burning | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 burning | aux |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 flame | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flame | det |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flame | amod |
| 7 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burning | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 burning | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present · progressive | missie | with a bright flame | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with flame=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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