Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 74
Suddenly the door of the room flew open and the draught of air caught up the little dancer, she fluttered like a sylph right into the stove by the side of the tin soldier, and was instantly in flames and was gone.
Who acts: door, draught · What happens: fly, catch up, flutter, be · To what, where: draught, stove, flames
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, draught), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | nmod |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flew | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 caught | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 draught | det |
| 11 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 draught | nmod |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flew | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 caught | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dancer | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dancer | amod |
| 18 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fluttered | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fluttered | nsubj |
| 21 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flew | conj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 sylph | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sylph | det |
| 24 | sylph | sylph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fluttered | obl |
| 25 | right | right | ADV | _ | 28 stove | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 stove | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stove | det |
| 28 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fluttered | obl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 side | det |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fluttered | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 soldier | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 soldier | det |
| 34 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 soldier | compound |
| 35 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 side | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 flames | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 flames | cc |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 flames | cop |
| 39 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 41 flames | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 flames | case |
| 41 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fluttered | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 gone | cc |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 gone | cop |
| 44 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flew | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the door of the room | open, suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch up | participle · passive | the draught of air | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary dancer=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flutter | past | draught | the stove | like a sylph; by the side of the tin soldier | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | flames | instantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the door of the room not said here | gone property | 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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