Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 68
Now it happened one day that all the paper in the tub was taken out, and laid on the hearth to be burnt.
Who acts: it · What happens: happen, take out, lay, burnt · To what, where: paper, hearth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 taken | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 paper | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paper | det |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tub | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tub | det |
| 12 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paper | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 taken | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laid | cc |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 taken | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 hearth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hearth | det |
| 21 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laid | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 burnt | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 burnt | aux:pass |
| 24 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 hearth | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take out | past · passive | all paper in the tub | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | participle | the hearth | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hearth=Destination | |||||
| 4 | burnt | to-infinitive · passive | 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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