Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 199
She had dropped one little straw out of her straw bed, when she set it on fire to save the lives of so many.
Who acts: angel · What happens: drop, set, save · To what, where: one little straw, straw bed, bed, fire, lives
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 (angel), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | aux |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 straw | nummod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 straw | amod |
| 6 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bed | compound |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 set | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fire | case |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 save | mark |
| 20 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 set | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lives | det |
| 22 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 save | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 many | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lives | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past · perfect | angel | one little straw | angel's straw bed | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme out bed=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | set | past | angel | bed | fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | angel not said here | the lives of many | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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