Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 73

The house took fire, and burst into flames; the hunter was burnt with the house, and the light was reflected over the sea as far as the spreading birch, beneath which we laid her sleeping dust.

Who acts: house, we · What happens: take, burst, burnt, reflect, lay, sleep · To what, where: fire, flames, hunter, light, sea, dust

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, we), 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 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burst	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 burst	cc
7	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 flames	case
9	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burst	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 burnt	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hunter	det
12	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burnt	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 burnt	aux:pass
14	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	parataxis
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burnt	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reflected	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reflected	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 light	det
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reflected	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 reflected	aux:pass
23	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 burnt	conj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reflected	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 reflected	advmod
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 birch	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 birch	det
31	spreading	spreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 birch	compound
32	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 far	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 laid	punct
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 laid	obl
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 laid	nsubj
37	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 burnt	conj
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 laid	obj
39	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 laid	xcomp
40	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sleeping	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the house	fire			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
2	burst	past	the house not said here		flames		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burnt	past · passive		the hunter		with the house	tree rules
4	reflect	past · passive		the light	the sea	far property	tree rules
5	lay	past	we	fire			tree rules
6	sleep	gerund	we not said here	dust			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=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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