Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 21
A camper in Australia poured petrol on a slow campfire; the flames burst up into his face and he was badly burned.
Who acts: camper, flames · What happens: pour, burst up, burn · To what, where: petrol, slow campfire, face, camper
This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camper, flames), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 camper | det |
| 2 | camper | camper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poured | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Australia | case |
| 4 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 camper | nmod |
| 5 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poured | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 campfire | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 campfire | det |
| 9 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 campfire | amod |
| 10 | campfire | campfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poured | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 burst | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flames | det |
| 13 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burst | nsubj |
| 14 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 poured | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 burst | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burst | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 burned | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 burned | aux:pass |
| 22 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 burned | advmod |
| 23 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 burst | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | a camper in Australia | petrol | a slow campfire | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petrol=Patient | |||
| 2 | burst up | past | the flames | camper's face | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | past · passive | camper | badly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:21.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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