Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 86

"The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.

Who acts: boy, flame, battle · What happens: stand, burn, flee, light, shine, wreck · To what, where: burning deck, boy, wreck

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, flame, battle), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 deck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deck	det
7	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 deck	amod
8	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
9	Whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fled	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 fled	advmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 fled	cc
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fled	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fled	aux
14	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 Shone	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flame	det
17	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Shone	nsubj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lit	nsubj
19	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flame	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 battle	det
21	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wreck	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 battle	case
23	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lit	obj
24	Shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
25	round	round	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 Shone	obl
27	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	29 dead	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dead	det
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Shone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	past	the boy		the burning deck		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location
2	burn in a quote	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flee in a quote	past · perfect · passive		boy		whence property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location
4	light in a quote	past	the flame	the battle's wreck			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreck=Product
5	shine in a quote	past	the flame			round boy; o'er the dead	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wreck in a quote		the battle				nom wreck «state transitive»: poss=agent

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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