Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 70

The children in the house stood round the stove; for they wanted to see the paper burn, because it flamed up so prettily, and afterwards, among the ashes, so many red sparks could be seen running one after the other, here and there, as quick as the wind.

Who acts: children, burn, many red sparks · What happens: stand, want, see, flame up, run · To what, where: ashes, paper burn, many red sparks, one

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 (children, burn, many red sparks), 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 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 stove	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stove	det
9	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 wanted	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 burn	det
17	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burn	compound
18	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flamed	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 flamed	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flamed	nsubj
22	flamed	flame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wanted	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 flamed	compound:prt
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 prettily	advmod
25	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	22 flamed	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 afterwards	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 afterwards	cc
28	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 stood	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ashes	punct
30	among	among	ADP	_	32 ashes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ashes	det
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 seen	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	40 seen	advmod
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sparks	amod
36	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sparks	amod
37	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 seen	nsubj:pass
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 seen	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 seen	aux:pass
40	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stood	parataxis
41	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 seen	xcomp
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 running	obj
43	after	after	ADP	_	45 other	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 other	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 running	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 here	punct
47	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 seen	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 there	cc
49	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 here	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 quick	punct
51	as	as	ADV	_	52 quick	advmod
52	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 seen	conj
53	as	as	ADP	_	55 wind	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 wind	det
55	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 quick	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the children in the house		the ashes		round the stove; afterwards property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among ash=Location
2	want	past	children = child					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	the paper burn				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer burn=Stimulus
4	flame up	past	burn				prettily property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	could · passive		many red sparks	here			tree rules
6	run	gerund	many red sparks not said here	one		after the other		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory

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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