Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 131

Look at the alchymic glass,' he cried; 'something glows in the crucible, pure and heavy.'

Who acts: you, fire, something · What happens: look, cry, glow · To what, where: crucible

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 (you, fire, something), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 glass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glass	det
4	alchymic	alchymic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glass	amod
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 glows	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 glows	punct
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 glows	nsubj
13	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 crucible	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crucible	det
16	crucible	crucible	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glows	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pure	punct
18	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crucible	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heavy	cc
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pure	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		at the alchymic glass	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at glass=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	fire			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	glow	present	something	the crucible		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crucible=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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