Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 191

The people on the ice became aware of the fire, and ran as fast as possible to help a poor sick woman, who, as they thought, was being burnt to death.

Who acts: people, poor sick woman · What happens: become, run, help, think, burnt · To what, where: poor sick woman

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 (people, poor sick woman), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 became	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ice	det
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 aware	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 fast	advmod
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 ran	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 possible	mark
17	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fast	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 help	mark
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ran	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
22	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 help	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 thought	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 woman	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 burnt	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 burnt	aux:pass
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 burnt	aux:pass
33	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 became	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 death	case
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 burnt	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	the people on the ice		aware property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	run	past	the people on the ice not said here		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	the people on the ice not said here	a poor sick woman		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Beneficiary
4	think speech: other	past	a poor sick woman			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	burnt	past · passive			to death	tree rules

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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