Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 73
How they would like to know where the sparks all went to!
Who acts: sparks · What happens: like, know, go
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), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 like | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 went | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sparks | det |
| 9 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 went | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would | sparks = spark | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | sparks = spark not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the sparks | all property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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