Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 78

All the written letters became quite red in a moment, and all the words and thoughts turned to fire.

Who acts: written letters, words · What happens: write, become, turn · To what, where: 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: who acts (written letters, words), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 letters	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 letters	det
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 letters	amod
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 red	advmod
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 moment	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 red	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 words	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turned	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thoughts	cc
17	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 words	conj
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 fire	case
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	all written letters		red property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	turn	past	all words and thoughts	fire		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to fire=Trajectory

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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