Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 77
Now we are at the smithy, where the fire roars and the half-naked men beat with their hammers so that the sparks fly far and wide.
Who acts: we, fire roars, sparks · What happens: be, beat, fly · To what, where: smithy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, fire roars, sparks), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 smithy | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 smithy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 smithy | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 smithy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smithy | det |
| 6 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beat | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 beat | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roars | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roars | compound |
| 11 | roars | roar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beat | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 men | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 naked | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 16 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roars | conj |
| 18 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 smithy | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hammers | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hammers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hammers | hammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beat | obl |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 fly | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sparks | det |
| 25 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fly | nsubj |
| 26 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 beat | advcl |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 fly | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wide | cc |
| 29 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 far | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smithy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | the smithy | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | beat | present | the fire roars and the naked men | with roars's hammers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hammer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | present | the sparks | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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