Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 129
The lamp burnt out, but he did not observe it.
Who acts: lamp · What happens: burnt out, not observe · To what, where: breath
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 (lamp), 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 lamp | det |
| 2 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burnt | nsubj |
| 3 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 burnt | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 observe | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 observe | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 observe | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 observe | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 observe | advmod |
| 10 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 burnt | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 observe | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt out | participle | the lamp | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not observe | past · do-support | lamp | breath | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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