Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 177
That was a great firebrand--the firebrand of inspiration.
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: great firebrand
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 firebrand | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 firebrand | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 firebrand | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 firebrand | amod |
| 5 | firebrand | firebrand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 firebrand | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 firebrand | det |
| 8 | firebrand | firebrand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 firebrand | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 inspiration | case |
| 10 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 firebrand | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 firebrand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a great firebrand and the firebrand of inspiration | 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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