Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 92
When the door of the stove was opened, the flames darted out of its mouth; this is customary with all stoves.
Who acts: flames · What happens: open, dart, be · To what, where: door, mouth, customary
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stove | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stove | det |
| 6 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | aux:pass |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 darted | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flames | det |
| 11 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 darted | nsubj |
| 12 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 darted | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 customary | punct |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 customary | det |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 customary | cop |
| 20 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 stoves | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 stoves | det |
| 23 | stoves | stove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 customary | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the door of the stove | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dart | past | the flames | stove's mouth | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mouth=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this customary | with all stoves | tree rules |
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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