Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 21

The window curtain was almost entirely burnt, and the wooden curtain-pole was one mass of flame.

Who acts: wooden curtain pole · What happens: burnt, be · To what, where: window curtain, one mass

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 (wooden curtain pole), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 curtain	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curtain	compound
3	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burnt	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burnt	aux:pass
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 entirely	advmod
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	7 burnt	advmod
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mass	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mass	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pole	det
11	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pole	amod
12	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pole	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 curtain	punct
14	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mass	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mass	cop
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 mass	nummod
17	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burnt	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 flame	case
19	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mass	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive		the window curtain				entirely property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the wooden curtain pole	one mass				of flame	tree rules

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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