Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 31
The flame trembled on his breast and in his heart, and it was in the peasant's room that his heart became one for the Danish arms.
Who acts: breast, heart · What happens: tremble, be, become · To what, where: flame, breast, room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breast, heart), 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 flame | det |
| 2 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flame | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 breast | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heart | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breast | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 room | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 room | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 room | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 room | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peasant | det |
| 17 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 room | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 peasant | case |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flame | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 became | obj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | nsubj |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 room | acl:relcl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 became | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 arms | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 arms | det |
| 27 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 arms | amod |
| 28 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 became | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle | the flame and the peasant's room not said here | Frederick's breast and Frederick's heart | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breast=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | breast | the peasant's room | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Frederick's heart | the peasant's room | for the Danish arms | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient that=Result |
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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