Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 92
Leave it alone,' I sang down the chimney; 'leave it alone, it will all end in smoke, air, coals, and ashes, and you will burn your fingers.'
Who acts: you, I, chimney · What happens: leave, sing down, end, burn · To what, where: gold, chimney, ashes, smoke, fingers
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, I, chimney), 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 Leave | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sang | nsubj |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | parataxis |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sang | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chimney | det |
| 10 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leave | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 leave | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 end | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 end | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 end | aux |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 end | advmod |
| 20 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 leave | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 smoke | case |
| 22 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 end | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 air | punct |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smoke | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 coals | punct |
| 26 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 smoke | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ashes | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ashes | cc |
| 29 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 end | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 burn | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 burn | cc |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 burn | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 burn | aux |
| 34 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leave | conj |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 burn | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | gold | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | sing down speech: express | past | I | the chimney | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | chimney | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | end | future | chimney | ashes | smoke and air and coals | all property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | burn | future | you | your fingers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
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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