Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 76
Ugh," cried the paper, as it burst into a bright flame; "ugh."
Who acts: bundle · What happens: cry, burst · To what, where: paper, ugh, bright flame
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 (bundle), 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 | Ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 4 cried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ugh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 paper | det |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 burst | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 burst | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 burst | nsubj |
| 10 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 flame | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flame | det |
| 13 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flame | amod |
| 14 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burst | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ugh | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ugh | punct |
| 17 | ugh | ugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burst | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the paper | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic | |||||
| 2 | burst in a quote | past | bundle | ugh | a bright flame | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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