Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 138
The last bubble of his happiness had burst, with a whiz and a whir, and I rushed away from the gold-maker's house.
Who acts: I · What happens: burst, rush away · To what, where: last bubble, house
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 (I), 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 | 3 bubble | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bubble | amod |
| 3 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 happiness | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bubble | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | aux |
| 8 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whiz | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 whiz | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 whiz | det |
| 12 | whiz | whiz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 whir | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 whir | det |
| 15 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whiz | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rushed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rushed | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 rushed | nsubj |
| 19 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 rushed | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maker | det |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 maker | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 gold | punct |
| 25 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 maker | case |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past · perfect · passive | the last bubble of fire's happiness | with a whiz and a whir | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with whiz=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | rush away | past | I | the gold maker's house | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from house=Trajectory |
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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