Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 43

Even out of the ash-bin the blossom of memory peeped forth, for Emily had sat whimpering there on the day when the window-curtain caught fire, and George arrived in the character of fire engine.

Who acts: Emily, window curtain · What happens: peep, sit, whimper, catch, arrive · To what, where: memory, fire, character

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emily, window 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	Even	even	ADV	_	7 bin	advmod
2	out	out	ADP	_	7 bin	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 bin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bin	det
5	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bin	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ash	punct
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blossom	det
9	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bin	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 memory	case
11	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blossom	nmod
12	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 memory	acl
13	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 peeped	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 sat	mark
16	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	aux
18	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 peeped	conj
19	whimpering	whimper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sat	advcl
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 whimpering	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whimpering	obl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 arrived	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 curtain	det
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 curtain	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 window	punct
28	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 arrived	nsubj
29	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 curtain	acl
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caught	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 arrived	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 arrived	cc
33	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 arrived	nsubj
34	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 character	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 character	det
37	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 arrived	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 engine	case
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 engine	compound
40	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 character	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peep	participle		memory not said here			forth property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past · perfect	Emily					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	whimper	gerund	Emily not said here		there	day		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch	participle	the window curtain not said here	fire				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
5	arrive	past	the window curtain		the character of fire engine			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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