Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 77

It was certainly not very pleasant to be burning; but when the whole was wrapped in flames, the flames mounted up into the air, higher than the flax had ever been able to raise its little blue flower, and they glistened as the white linen never could have glistened.

Who acts: bundle, flax, flowers · What happens: not be, burn, wrap, mount up, be, raise · To what, where: whole, flames, air, little blue flower

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, flax, flowers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleasant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleasant	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 pleasant	advmod
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 pleasant	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 pleasant	advmod
6	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 burning	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 burning	aux
9	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pleasant	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 wrapped	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wrapped	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 wrapped	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 whole	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wrapped	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrapped	aux:pass
16	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pleasant	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 flames	case
18	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wrapped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flames	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flames	det
21	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flames	conj
22	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 flames	acl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 mounted	compound:prt
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 air	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mounted	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 higher	punct
28	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 pleasant	conj
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 able	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flax	det
31	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 able	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 able	aux
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 able	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 able	cop
35	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 higher	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 raise	mark
37	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	xcomp
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 flower	nmod:poss
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 flower	amod
40	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 flower	amod
41	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 raise	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 glistened	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 glistened	cc
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 glistened	nsubj
45	glistened	glisten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleasant	conj
46	as	as	ADP	_	49 linen	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 linen	det
48	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 linen	amod
49	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 glistened	obl
50	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 glistened	advmod
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 glistened	aux
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 glistened	aux
53	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 glistened	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	bundle				certainly, pleasant property	tree rules
2	burn	to-infinitive · progressive	bundle not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wrap	past · passive		the whole	flames and the flames			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in flame=Destination
4	mount up	participle		the flames not said here	the air			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location
5	be		bundle not said here					tree rules
6	is	past · perfect	the flax			ever	able property	tree rules
7	raise	to-infinitive	the flax not said here	bundle's little blue flower				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
8	glisten	past	flowers = flower				as the white linen	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not glisten	could · perfect	flowers = flower not said here					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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