Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 10
And the lamp burned bravely on, and she fell on her knees, and prayed.
Who acts: lamp, flame · What happens: burn, fall, pray · To what, where: knees
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 burned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lamp | det |
| 3 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burned | nsubj |
| 4 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 6 on | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 burned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burned | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 knees | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prayed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prayed | cc |
| 16 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burned | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | the lamp | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | flame | flame's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 3 | pray | past | the lamp not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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