Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 11

There was no air beside the hot burning sulphur flame, and there was no ground under their feet; they, the wicked ones, sank deeper and deeper, while eternal silence surrounded them!

Who acts: air, ground, propensities, wicked ones · What happens: be, one, sink, surround · To what, where: hot sulphur flame, eternal silence

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, ground, propensities, wicked ones), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 flame	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flame	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flame	amod
8	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sulphur	compound
9	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flame	compound
10	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ground	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 ones	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ones	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ones	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ones	det
24	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ones	amod
25	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sank	punct
27	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ones	acl:relcl
28	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 sank	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 deeper	cc
30	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 deeper	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 surrounded	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 surrounded	mark
33	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 silence	amod
34	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 surrounded	nsubj:pass
35	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sank	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 surrounded	obj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no air		the hot sulphur flame; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside flame=Location
2	be	past	no ground under propensities's feet		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	one		propensities = propensity				tree rules
4	sink	past	the wicked ones not said here			deep property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	surround	participle · passive		eternal silence			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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