Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 75
The whole bundle of paper had been placed on the fire, and was soon alight. "
What happens: place, be · To what, where: whole bundle, fire
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: 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 | 3 bundle | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bundle | amod |
| 3 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 paper | case |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bundle | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 placed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 placed | aux:pass |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 alight | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 alight | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 alight | cop |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 alight | advmod |
| 16 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 placed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · perfect · passive | the whole bundle of paper | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fire=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | alight, soon property | 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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