Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 72
The flames rise around her as she places herself on the dead body of her husband; but the Hindoo woman is thinking of the living one in that circle; of him, her son, who lighted those flames.
Who acts: flames, Hindoo woman, son · What happens: rise, think, light · To what, where: woman, dead body, flames
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, Hindoo woman, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flames | det |
| 2 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rise | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 places | case |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 places | nsubj |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rise | obl |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 rise | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 body | amod |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rise | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 husband | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 thinking | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 thinking | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | Hindoo | Hindoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 woman | compound |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thinking | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 thinking | aux |
| 23 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rise | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 living | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 living | det |
| 26 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thinking | obl |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 living | flat |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 circle | case |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 circle | det |
| 30 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 living | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 him | punct |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rise | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 son | punct |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 son | nmod:poss |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 him | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lighted | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 lighted | nsubj |
| 39 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 son | acl:relcl |
| 40 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 flames | det |
| 41 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lighted | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the flames | woman | the dead body of woman's husband | around woman; as places | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around she=Location | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · progressive | the Hindoo woman | of the living in that circle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | light | past | woman's son | that flames | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Product |
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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