The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 19

He shot his beams above and below, on earth and in heaven; he burnt up the grass in the fields and scorched the faces of princes as well as of poorer folk.

Who acts: sun · What happens: shoot, burnt up, scorch, beam · To what, where: beams, earth, grass, fields, faces

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shot	nsubj
2	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beams	nmod:poss
4	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shot	obj
5	above	above	ADV	_	2 shot	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 below	cc
7	below	below	ADV	_	5 above	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 earth	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 earth	case
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shot	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heaven	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 heaven	case
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 earth	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 burnt	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 burnt	nsubj
16	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shot	parataxis
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 burnt	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burnt	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 fields	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fields	det
22	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 burnt	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 scorched	cc
24	scorched	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 burnt	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 faces	det
26	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 scorched	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 princes	case
28	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 faces	nmod
29	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	24 scorched	advmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 as	fixed
31	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	34 folk	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
33	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 folk	amod
34	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scorched	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	sun	sun's beams	earth and heaven	above property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme on earth=Destination
2	burnt up	past	sun	the grass	the fields		tree rules
3	scorch	past	sun not said here	the faces of princes		as poorer folk	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient
4	beam		sun				nom beam «communication 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: «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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