Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 37
The flames rose up high, and beat out and in, and bit at the beams and planks, and ate them up.
Who acts: flames · What happens: rise up, beat out, eat up · To what, where: bit, flames
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames), 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 flames | det |
| 2 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rose | compound:prt |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beat | cc |
| 8 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 beat | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 in | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 beat | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bit | cc |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 beams | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beams | det |
| 17 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bit | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 planks | cc |
| 19 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 beams | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ate | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ate | cc |
| 22 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ate | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 ate | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the flames | bit at the beams and planks | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | beat out | infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | eat up | past | the flames not said here | flames = flame | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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