Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 94

Then columns of smoke rose into the still air; it was a heath fire, they told him--how brightly it blazed in the dark evening!

Who acts: columns, barrow · What happens: rise, be, tell, blaze · To what, where: air, heath fire, Jurgen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (columns, barrow), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rose	advmod
2	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rose	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 smoke	case
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 columns	nmod
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 air	advmod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 fire	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fire	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fire	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fire	det
14	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fire	compound
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 blazed	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 brightly	advmod
22	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	24 blazed	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 blazed	nsubj
24	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 evening	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 evening	det
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 evening	amod
28	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blazed	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	columns of smoke			the air	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location
2	is a	past	barrow	a heath fire					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	columns = column		Jurgen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	blaze	past	barrow				evening	brightly property	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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