Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 187

Then came the thought, as if from heaven, that I would rather set fire to my bed, and let the house be burnt down, than that so many people should perish miserably.

Who acts: thought, I, house, that · What happens: come, set, let, burnt down, perish · To what, where: fire, house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, I, house, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thought	det
4	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heaven	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 heaven	case
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 heaven	mark
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 heaven	case
9	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 set	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 set	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 set	aux
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 set	advmod
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bed	nmod:poss
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	obj
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 burnt	aux:pass
26	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 let	xcomp
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 burnt	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 perish	punct
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 perish	mark
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 perish	nsubj:outer
31	so	so	ADV	_	35 perish	advmod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 people	amod
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 perish	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 perish	aux
35	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	conj
36	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	35 perish	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the thought		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set	would	I	fire		to my bed	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
3	let	infinitive	the thought not said here	the house			tree rules
4	burnt down	infinitive · passive	the house not said here				tree rules
5	perish	should	that			miserably property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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