Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 15
It was pleasant and cheerful indoors, where peat fuel and fragments of wood from the wrecks blazed and crackled upon the hearth.
Who acts: sand, peat fuel · What happens: be, blaze, crackle · To what, where: hearth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sand, peat fuel), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pleasant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleasant | cop |
| 3 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cheerful | cc |
| 5 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pleasant | conj |
| 6 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 3 pleasant | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fuel | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 fuel | advmod |
| 9 | peat | peat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fuel | compound |
| 10 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blazed | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fragments | cc |
| 12 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fuel | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fragments | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 wrecks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wrecks | det |
| 17 | wrecks | wreck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fuel | nmod |
| 18 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleasant | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crackled | cc |
| 20 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 blazed | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 hearth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hearth | det |
| 23 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crackled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sand | indoors, pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | sand not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | blaze | past | peat fuel from the wrecks and fragments of wood | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | crackle | past | peat fuel from the wrecks and fragments of wood not said here | the hearth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon hearth=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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