Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 88

He would lock himself in his room, and for days the fire would be kept burning; but he did not talk much of what he was doing.

Who acts: shipbuilder, fire · What happens: lock, keep, burn, not talk, do · To what, where: shipbuilder, room, fire, much

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 (shipbuilder, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lock	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lock	aux
3	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 lock	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 room	nmod:poss
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kept	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kept	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kept	nsubj:pass
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 kept	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 kept	aux:pass
16	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lock	advcl
17	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 kept	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 talk	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 talk	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 talk	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 talk	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 talk	advmod
23	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lock	conj
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 talk	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 what	case
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 much	nmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 doing	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 doing	aux
29	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 what	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lock	would	shipbuilder	shipbuilder	shipbuilder's room		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	keep	would · passive		the fire		day	tree rules
3	burn	gerund	the fire not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not talk	past · do-support	fire	much			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent much=Patient
5	do	past · progressive	fire				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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