Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 21
In the large and smoky hall a bright fire was burning on the stone floor.
Who acts: bright fire · What happens: burn · To what, where: large hall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright fire), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hall | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 smoky | cc |
| 5 | smoky | smoky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 large | conj |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burning | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fire | amod |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burning | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 burning | aux |
| 11 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | compound |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burning | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · progressive | a bright fire | the large hall | on the stone floor | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=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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