Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 100

Where the chimney smokes, the meal is being cooked,' says the proverb; but here a chimney smoked that devoured all the meals for the sake of gold.

Who acts: chimney · What happens: smoke, cook, say, devour · To what, where: meal, proverb, chimney · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chimney), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 smokes	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chimney	det
3	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smokes	nsubj
4	smokes	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smokes	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meal	det
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cooked	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cooked	aux:pass
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cooked	aux:pass
10	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 smokes	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cooked	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 proverb	det
15	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 here	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 here	cc
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 smokes	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 chimney	det
20	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 here	nsubj
21	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 chimney	acl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 meals	mark
23	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 meals	amod
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 meals	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 meals	det
26	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 smoked	obl:agent
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 sake	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sake	det
29	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meals	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 gold	case
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sake	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smokes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	smoke	present	the chimney		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cook	present · passive		the meal	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present		the proverb	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent proverb=Topic
4	smoke	participle		a chimney not said here	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	devour	participle			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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