Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 119
A lamp burned there before the picture of the Madonna.
Who acts: lamp · What happens: burn · To what, where: picture
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lamp | det |
| 2 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | nsubj |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 burned | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 picture | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 picture | det |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Madonna | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Madonna | det |
| 10 | Madonna | Madonna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 picture | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | a lamp | the picture of the Madonna; there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before picture=Location |
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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