Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 7
Perfumed oil was burning in costly silver lamps on every altar.
Who acts: Perfumed oil · What happens: perfume, burn · To what, where: costly silver lamps
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perfumed oil), 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 | Perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 oil | amod |
| 2 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burning | aux |
| 4 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 lamps | case |
| 6 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lamps | amod |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lamps | compound |
| 8 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burning | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 altar | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 altar | det |
| 11 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lamps | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perfume | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | burn | past · progressive | Perfumed oil | costly silver lamps on every altar | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lamp=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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