More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 35

MR. G. My father's house burnt down! and how came it to be on fire?

What happens: burnt down, come, be · To what, where: G., house, fire

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	MR.	MR.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 G.	nmod:desc
2	G.	G.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 burnt	nsubj:pass
3	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 father	case
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 G.	appos
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 burnt	compound:prt
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 burnt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burnt	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	17 fire	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 fire	cop
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 fire	case
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	burnt down	participle · passive	G. MR.		tree rules
2	come	past	house		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive		fire	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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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