The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 106
Someone forgot to pile up the fire before we left and it has burnt itself out!
Who acts: Someone, we · What happens: forget, not pile up, leave, burnt out · To what, where: fire
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 (Someone, we), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pile | mark |
| 4 | pile | pile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 forgot | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 pile | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pile | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 left | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pile | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burnt | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 burnt | aux |
| 14 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 forgot | conj |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 burnt | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 burnt | compound:prt |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Someone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not pile up | to-infinitive | Someone not said here | the fire | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Destination | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | we | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | burnt out | present · perfect · passive | 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: «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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