Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 79
"Now I am mounting straight up to the sun," said a voice in the flames; and it was as if a thousand voices echoed the words; and the flames darted up through the chimney, and went out at the top.
Who acts: voice, flame, flames · What happens: mount, say, be, dart up, go out · To what, where: sun, chimney, top · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (voice, flame, flames), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounting | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 mounting | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mounting | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounting | aux |
| 5 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 up | advmod |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 mounting | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mounting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounting | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounting | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 flames | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flames | det |
| 18 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 voice | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 echoed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 echoed | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 echoed | nsubj:outer |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 echoed | cop |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 echoed | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 echoed | mark |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thousand | det |
| 26 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 voices | nummod |
| 27 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 echoed | nsubj |
| 28 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 words | det |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 echoed | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 darted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 darted | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 flames | det |
| 34 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 darted | nsubj |
| 35 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 darted | compound:prt |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 chimney | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 chimney | det |
| 39 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 darted | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 went | cc |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 went | compound:prt |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 top | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 top | det |
| 46 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount in a quote | present · progressive | a voice = voice | the sun | now | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sun=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | flame | echo property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dart up | past | the flames | the chimney | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chimney=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | go out | past | a voice not said here | the top | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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