The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 101

Hastily putting out the fire which burned brightly at the back, and bidding his mother come in and keep very still, the prince began to pace up and down, listening for the return of the robbers.

Who acts: prince, fire, robbers · What happens: put out, burn, bid, come in, keep, begin · To what, where: fire, back, mother, pace

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, fire, robbers), 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	Hastily	hastily	ADV	_	2 putting	advmod
2	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 began	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 putting	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 putting	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 burned	nsubj
7	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fire	acl:relcl
8	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	7 burned	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 back	det
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bidding	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bidding	cc
14	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 putting	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bidding	obj
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bidding	xcomp
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 keep	cc
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 still	advmod
22	still	still	ADV	_	20 keep	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 putting	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 prince	det
25	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pace	mark
28	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 began	obj
29	up	up	ADV	_	26 began	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 down	cc
31	down	down	ADV	_	29 up	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 listening	punct
33	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 began	advcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 return	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 return	det
36	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 listening	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 robbers	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 robbers	det
39	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 return	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	gerund	the prince not said here	the fire			hastily property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal
2	burn	past	the fire		the back		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Location
3	bid	gerund	the prince not said here	Prince's mother				tree rules
4	come in	infinitive	the prince not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	infinitive	the prince not said here			still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past	the prince	pace				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=Eventuality
7	listen	gerund	the prince not said here				for the return of the robbers	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for return=Theme
8	return		the robbers					nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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