Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 153

The pieces were placed in a fire under the copper, and they quickly blazed up brightly, while the tree sighed so deeply that each sigh was like a pistol-shot.

Who acts: pieces, tree, sigh · What happens: place, blaze up, sigh, be · To what, where: pieces, fire

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, tree, sigh), 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 pieces	det
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 placed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	aux:pass
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 copper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 copper	det
10	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blazed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blazed	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 blazed	nsubj
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 blazed	advmod
15	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 blazed	compound:prt
17	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	15 blazed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sighed	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 sighed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sighed	nsubj
22	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 blazed	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 deeply	advmod
24	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	22 sighed	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 shot	mark
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 sigh	det
27	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shot	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 shot	cop
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 shot	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 shot	det
31	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shot	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 pistol	punct
33	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sighed	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		the pieces	a fire	under the copper	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in fire=Destination
2	blaze up	past	pieces = piece			brightly, quickly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sigh	past	the tree			deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	each sigh			like a pistol shot	tree rules

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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