Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 71

They called it seeing the children come out of school, and the last spark was the schoolmaster.

Who acts: sparks, children, last spark · What happens: call, see, come out, be · To what, where: burn, school, schoolmaster · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sparks, children, last spark), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 called	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seeing	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 school	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 schoolmaster	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 schoolmaster	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spark	det
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spark	amod
15	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 schoolmaster	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 schoolmaster	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 schoolmaster	det
18	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	past	sparks = spark	burn	tree rules
2	see	gerund	sparks = spark not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come out	present	the children	school	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient school=Result
4	is a	past	the last spark	the schoolmaster	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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