Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 74
Can the fire of the heart be extinguished in the flames of the funeral pile?"
Who acts: funeral pile · What happens: extinguish, fire, flame · To what, where: fire, flames, heart
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 (funeral pile), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 extinguished | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fire | det |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extinguished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fire | nmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 extinguished | aux:pass |
| 8 | extinguished | extinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 flames | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flames | det |
| 11 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 extinguished | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pile | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pile | det |
| 14 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pile | compound |
| 15 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flames | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 extinguished | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 extinguished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extinguish | can · passive | the fire of the heart | the flames of the funeral pile | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fire | the heart | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | flame | the funeral pile | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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