Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 120

A great fire gleamed on the hearth, and roasting and boiling was going on there; without, under the citron trees and laurels, stood a few covered tables.

Who acts: roasting, great fire · What happens: gleam, go, stand, cover · To what, where: great fire, hearth, few covered tables

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 (roasting, great fire), 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	3 fire	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fire	amod
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
4	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fire	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hearth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hearth	det
7	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gleamed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 going	cc
10	roasting	roasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 boiling	cc
12	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roasting	conj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fire	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 there	case
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 going	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 trees	punct
18	without	without	ADP	_	23 trees	case
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 without	punct
20	under	under	ADP	_	23 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
22	citron	citron	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	compound
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fire	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laurels	cc
25	laurels	laurel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 trees	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fire	punct
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tables	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tables	amod
30	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 tables	amod
31	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stood	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	gleam	participle		a great fire and the citron trees and laurels not said here	the hearth	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=Location
2	go	past · progressive	roasting and boiling			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on there=Location
3	stand	past	a great fire and the citron trees and laurels	a few covered tables		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus
4	cover	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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