Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 35
A burning light remained in the room, and a long, red wick rose far above the flame, which fluttered in the draught of air.
Who acts: burning light, flame · What happens: burn, remain, rise, flutter · To what, where: burning light, room, flame, draught
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burning light, flame), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 2 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 light | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rose | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wick | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wick | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wick | amod |
| 14 | wick | wick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | nsubj |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 rose | advmod |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 flame | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flame | det |
| 19 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fluttered | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 fluttered | nsubj |
| 22 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flame | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 draught | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 draught | det |
| 25 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fluttered | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 draught | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | 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 | remain | participle | a burning light not said here | the room | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | a burning light | the flame | far property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above flame=Location | |||
| 4 | flutter | past | the flame | the draught of air | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in draught=Location |
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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