Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 77

Bombshells tore away the flesh in red strips; bombshells lit up into a terrible glow the strawheaps to which the wounded had dragged themselves, to lie untended for many hours, perhaps for all the hours they had to live.

Who acts: Bombshells · What happens: tore away, lit up, drag, lie, have, live · To what, where: flesh, red strips, bombshells, terrible glow, wounded

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 (Bombshells), 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	Bombshells	bombshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 tore	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flesh	det
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 strips	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strips	amod
8	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tore	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 bombshells	punct
10	bombshells	bombshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tore	parataxis
11	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bombshells	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 lit	compound:prt
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 glow	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 glow	det
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 glow	amod
16	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lit	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 strawheaps	det
18	strawheaps	strawheap	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 glow	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 dragged	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wounded	det
22	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dragged	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dragged	aux
24	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 strawheaps	acl:relcl
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 dragged	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lie	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lie	mark
28	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	parataxis
29	untended	untended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lie	xcomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 hours	case
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hours	amod
32	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 untended	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
34	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	40 had	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 hours	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 hours	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hours	det
38	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 had	obl
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lie	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 live	mark
42	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 had	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore away	past	Bombshells	the flesh	red strips		away property	tree rules
2	lit up	participle		bombshells not said here	a terrible glow the strawheaps			tree rules
3	drag	past · perfect · passive		the wounded			to the strawheaps	tree rules
4	lie	to-infinitive					untended property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	Bombshells = bombshell			hour	perhaps property	tree rules
6	live	to-infinitive	Bombshells = bombshell not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «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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