Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 72

They often thought the last spark had come; and one would cry, "There goes the schoolmaster;" but the next moment another spark would appear, shining so beautifully.

Who acts: sparks, last spark, one, next moment · What happens: think, come, cry, go, appear, shine · To what, where: 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, last spark, one, next moment), 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	3 thought	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spark	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spark	amod
6	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thought	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cry	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cry	cc
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cry	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cry	aux
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 goes	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 goes	punct
16	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 goes	expl
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cry	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 schoolmaster	det
19	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cry	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 cry	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 appear	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
24	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 moment	amod
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 appear	nsubj
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 spark	det
27	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 appear	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 appear	aux
29	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cry	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shining	punct
31	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 appear	xcomp
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 beautifully	advmod
33	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	31 shining	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	sparks = spark			often property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	past · perfect	the last spark				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	would	one				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	present	one not said here	the schoolmaster	there		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location schoolmaster=Theme
5	appear	would	the next moment				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	shine	gerund	the next moment not said here			beautifully property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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