Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 52

The flames of the burning house opposite illuminated him as he sat, both hands pressed tightly over his cap, in which the treasure lay; and then he found out what feelings really reigned in his heart, and knew exactly which way they tended.

Who acts: flames, house, hands, treasure, feelings, burning house opposite · What happens: burn, illuminate, sit, press, lay, find out · To what, where: house, cap, heart, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, house, hands, treasure), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flames	det
2	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 illuminated	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 opposite	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 opposite	det
5	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 opposite	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opposite	compound
7	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flames	nmod
8	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 illuminated	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 sat	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 illuminated	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pressed	punct
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hands	det
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pressed	nsubj
16	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
17	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	16 pressed	advmod
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 cap	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cap	nmod:poss
20	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pressed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lay	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 treasure	det
25	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pressed	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 found	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 illuminated	parataxis
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 found	compound:prt
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 reigned	obj
34	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 reigned	nsubj
35	really	really	ADV	_	36 reigned	advmod
36	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 found	ccomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 heart	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 heart	nmod:poss
39	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reigned	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 knew	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 knew	cc
42	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 illuminated	parataxis
43	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	45 way	advmod
44	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	45 way	det
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 knew	obj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 tended	nsubj
47	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 way	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 illuminated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	illuminate	past	the flames of the burning house opposite		house				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination
3	sit	past	house						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	press	past	both hands			house's cap		tightly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent over cap=Trajectory
5	lay	infinitive	the treasure						vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination
6	find out	past	house				then		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	reign	past	feelings			house's heart			tree rules
8	know	past		which way					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
9	tend	past	hands = hand	which way not said here					vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
10	flame		the burning house opposite						nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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