Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 190
The flames rushed out towards me, flickered on the window, and rose high above the roof.
What happens: rush out, flicker, rise · To what, where: flames, window, roof
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: 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 | 8 flickered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flames | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 rushed | compound:prt |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flickered | punct |
| 8 | flickered | flicker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flickered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rose | cc |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flickered | conj |
| 15 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 rose | advmod |
| 16 | above | above | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flickered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | participle | the flames not said here | towards me | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | flicker | participle · passive | the flames | the window | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the roof | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above roof=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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