Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 87
In his fireplace there was a fire, even in summer time.
Who acts: fire · What happens: be · To what, where: fireplace
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 (fire), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fireplace | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fireplace | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 time | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | compound |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fire | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fire and summer time | shipbuilder's fireplace; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fireplace=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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