Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 11

And the Drum said--the Fire-drum, that was beaten when there was a fire in the town:

Who acts: Drum, fire · What happens: say, beat, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drum, fire), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Drum	det
3	Drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drum	det
7	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 drum	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Fire	punct
9	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beaten	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 beaten	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beaten	aux:pass
13	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	parataxis
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 was	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beaten	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fire	nmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Drum			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	beat	past · passive		that		tree rules
3	be	past	a fire in the town		there	vn exist-47.1 «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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