Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 10
A fire had been kindled in the midst of the hut, and while the hot ashes lay there red and glowing, the bread was baked in them.
Who acts: hot ashes · What happens: kindle, lay, glow, bake · To what, where: fire, midst, bread
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hot ashes), 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 fire | det |
| 2 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kindled | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 kindled | aux:pass |
| 5 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 midst | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 midst | det |
| 8 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kindled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 midst | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 lay | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ashes | det |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ashes | amod |
| 17 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kindled | conj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 lay | advmod |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lay | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 glowing | cc |
| 22 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 red | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 baked | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bread | det |
| 25 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 baked | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 baked | aux:pass |
| 27 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 kindled | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 baked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past · perfect · passive | a fire | the midst of the hut | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the hot ashes | there | red property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | glow | gerund | the hot ashes not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bake | past · passive | the bread | in ashes = ash | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in they=Instrument |
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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