Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 106

A spark from the fireworks which remained had set it on fire; it was burnt to ashes!

Who acts: fireworks, spark · What happens: remain, set, burnt · To what, where: trunk, fire

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fireworks, spark), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spark	det
2	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fireworks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fireworks	det
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spark	nmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 remained	nsubj
7	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fireworks	acl:relcl
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	aux
9	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 fire	case
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 burnt	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 burnt	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 burnt	aux:pass
16	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 set	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 ashes	case
18	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 burnt	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the fireworks				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set	past · perfect	a spark from the fireworks	trunk	fire		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination
3	burnt	past · passive		trunk		to ashes	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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