The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 14

Some people really light a fire and strew spikenard blossoms in it; but that is a clumsy method, for if the flames do not shoot up at the right moment away will fly the woodpecker, carrying the root with her.”

Who acts: people, that, flames, clumsy method · What happens: light, strew, be, not shoot up, fly, carry · To what, where: fire, spikenard blossoms, clumsy method, woodpecker, root

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, that, flames, clumsy method), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 light	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 light	advmod
4	light	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 light	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 strew	cc
8	strew	strew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 light	conj
9	spikenard	spikenard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blossoms	compound
10	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strew	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 strew	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 method	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 method	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 method	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 method	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 method	det
18	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 method	amod
19	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fly	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shoot	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 shoot	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 shoot	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flames	det
24	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shoot	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 shoot	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 shoot	advmod
27	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 method	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 shoot	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 moment	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moment	det
31	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 moment	amod
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shoot	obl
33	away	away	ADV	_	27 shoot	advmod
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fly	aux
35	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 light	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 woodpecker	det
37	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fly	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 carrying	punct
39	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 fly	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 root	det
41	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carrying	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 carrying	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 light	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	present	some people	a fire				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	strew	infinitive	some people not said here	spikenard blossoms	fire			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme in it=Destination
3	is a	present	that	a clumsy method				tree rules
4	not shoot up a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	the flames			moment	away property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fly	future	a clumsy method	the woodpecker				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woodpecker=Theme
6	carry	gerund	a clumsy method not said here	the root			with woodpecker	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme

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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