Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 25
The largest and dryest they could find they carried into the village, and piled them up in a heap and set them on fire.
Who acts: men · What happens: dry, find, carry, pile up, set · To what, where: largest, village, men, heap, fire · 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 (men), 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 largest | det |
| 2 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 find | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dryest | cc |
| 4 | dryest | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 largest | conj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | nsubj |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | ccomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 piled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 piled | cc |
| 15 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 piled | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 piled | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heap | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heap | det |
| 20 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piled | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 find | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | present | men = man not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | find | could | men = man | the largest | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | men = man | the village | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pile up | past | men = man not said here | men = man | a heap | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in heap=Destination | |||
| 5 | set | infinitive | men = man not said here | men = man | fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on fire=Destination |
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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