Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 40

The moon, like a large lamp, hung high up in the blue ceiling, and he had no fear of its setting fire to his curtains.

Who acts: moon, fear · What happens: hang, have, fear, fire · To what, where: large lamp, blue ceiling, fear, setting fire

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, fear), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lamp	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 lamp	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lamp	amod
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moon	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hung	punct
9	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lamp	acl
10	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 up	advmod
11	up	up	ADV	_	9 hung	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 ceiling	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ceiling	det
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ceiling	amod
15	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 fear	det
21	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 fire	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fire	nmod:poss
24	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fire	compound
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fear	nmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 curtains	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 curtains	nmod:poss
28	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	participle		a large lamp not said here	the blue ceiling		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ceiling=Location
2	have	past	the moon and a large lamp	no fear of fear's setting fire		to haystack's curtains	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
3	fear			fear's setting fire			nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient
4	fire		fear				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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