Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 83
"The maid took the matches and lighted them; dear me, how they sputtered and blazed up!
Who acts: maid, matches · What happens: take, light, sputter, blaze up · To what, where: matches, cutter
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 (maid, matches), 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 | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maid | det |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 matches | det |
| 6 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lighted | cc |
| 8 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lighted | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 dear | punct |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 took | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 took | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sputtered | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 sputtered | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sputtered | nsubj |
| 16 | sputtered | sputter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blazed | cc |
| 18 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sputtered | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 blazed | compound:prt |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | the maid | the matches | cutter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Theme match=Destination | |||
| 2 | light in a quote | participle | the maid not said here | matches = match | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | ||||
| 3 | sputter in a quote | past | matches = match | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blaze up in a quote | past | matches = match 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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