Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 32
The place burnt like fire, and the poison entered into his blood.
Who acts: place · What happens: burnt, enter · To what, where: place, blood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 place | acl |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burnt | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 entered | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poison | det |
| 9 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | participle | the place not said here | like fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the place | poison's blood | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial_Location |
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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