Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 76
But of the little dancer nothing remained but the tinsel rose, which was burnt black as a cinder.
Who acts: nothing, tinsel · What happens: remain, rise, burnt
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 (nothing, tinsel), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 remained | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dancer | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dancer | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dancer | amod |
| 5 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obl |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 rose | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tinsel | det |
| 10 | tinsel | tinsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remained | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 burnt | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 burnt | aux:pass |
| 15 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rose | conj |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 burnt | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 cinder | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cinder | det |
| 19 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burnt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | nothing | of the little dancer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the tinsel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | burnt | past · passive | as a cinder; black 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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