Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 79
At last the candles burnt down to the branches and were put out.
What happens: burnt down, put out · To what, where: last candles
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 candles | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 candles | det |
| 4 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 candles | acl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 burnt | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 branches | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 branches | det |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burnt | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux:pass |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 burnt | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 candles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt down | participle | the last candles not said here | to the branches | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put out | past · passive | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
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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