Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 42

He sits in the large chandelier in the theatre and blazes away, so that people think it is a lamp; but they soon find out their mistake.

Who acts: boy, people, theatre · What happens: sit, blaze away, think, be, find out, mistake · To what, where: large chandelier, lamp, mistake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, people, theatre), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 chandelier	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chandelier	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chandelier	amod
6	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 theatre	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 theatre	det
9	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chandelier	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blazes	cc
11	blazes	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 blazes	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 think	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 blazes	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lamp	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lamp	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lamp	det
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 think	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 find	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 find	advmod
26	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 find	compound:prt
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mistake	nmod:poss
29	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	boy		the large chandelier in the theatre		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chandelier=Location
2	blaze away	present	boy not said here			away property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	people				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	theatre	a lamp			tree rules
5	find out	present	people	people's mistake		soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic
6	mistake		people				nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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