Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 20
The curtain caught fire, and the flames played about her face; and I saw that she was dead.
Who acts: curtain, flames, I · What happens: catch, play, see, be · To what, where: fire
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curtain, flames, I), 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 curtain | det |
| 2 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 played | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 played | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flames | det |
| 8 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 played | nsubj |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 played | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 dead | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saw | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the curtain | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | past | the flames | about curtain's face | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | curtain | dead property | tree rules |
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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