Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 44
They are burning the witch, Joan of Arc.
Who acts: victories · What happens: burn · To what, where: witch
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (victories), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burning | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 burning | aux |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burning | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Joan | punct |
| 7 | Joan | Joan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 witch | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Arc | case |
| 9 | Arc | Arc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Joan | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present · progressive | victories = victory | the witch | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent witch=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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