Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 25
"I only took just one lucifer-match," she said, "and it was burning directly, and the curtain was burning too.
Who acts: Emily, match, curtain · What happens: take, say, burn · To what, where: one lucifer match · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Emily, match, curtain), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 match | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 match | nummod |
| 7 | lucifer | lucifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 match | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 lucifer | punct |
| 9 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 burning | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 burning | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 burning | aux |
| 19 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 19 burning | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 burning | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 burning | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 curtain | det |
| 24 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burning | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 burning | aux |
| 26 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 burning | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | Emily | one lucifer match | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Emily | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | burn in a quote | past · progressive | match | directly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burn in a quote | past · progressive | the curtain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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