The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 60

The wood blazed up, and presently something in the basin caught fire, and Edmund saw that it was a sort of liquid that burned like the brandy in a snapdragon.

Who acts: wood, Edmund, oversight, liquid · What happens: blaze up, catch, see, be, burn · To what, where: wood, fire, sort, snapdragon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, Edmund, oversight, liquid), 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 wood	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	nsubj
3	blazed	blaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wood	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 blazed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caught	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 caught	cc
7	presently	presently	ADV	_	8 something	advmod
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 caught	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 basin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 basin	det
11	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 something	nmod
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
16	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 caught	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sort	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sort	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sort	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sort	det
22	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 liquid	case
24	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sort	nmod
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 burned	nsubj
26	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 liquid	acl:relcl
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 brandy	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 brandy	det
29	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burned	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 snapdragon	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 snapdragon	det
32	snapdragon	snapdragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burned	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blaze up	participle		the wood not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	the wood	fire			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	see	past	Edmund				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	oversight	a sort		of liquid	tree rules
5	burn	past	liquid		a snapdragon	like the brandy	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snapdragon=Location

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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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