The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 43

Between her and them lay a thick wood, and Sigurd stopped for a moment to set it on fire; then he and his sister hastened on more swiftly than before, till they reached the grove with the red and green trees, into which they jumped, and felt that at last they were safe.

Who acts: Sigurd, men · What happens: lie, stop, set, hasten, reach, jump · To what, where: thick wood, wood, fire, Sigurd, grove

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, men), 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	Between	between	ADP	_	2 her	case
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 them	cc
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 her	conj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stopped	cc
11	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stopped	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 set	mark
17	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopped	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 fire	case
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hastened	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 hastened	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hastened	nsubj:pass
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sister	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sister	nmod:poss
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 he	conj
27	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lay	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 swiftly	case
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 swiftly	advmod
30	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	27 hastened	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 before	case
32	before	before	ADV	_	30 swiftly	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 reached	punct
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 reached	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 reached	nsubj
36	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hastened	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 grove	det
38	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reached	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	44 trees	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trees	det
41	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 trees	amod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 green	cc
43	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 red	conj
44	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 reached	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 jumped	punct
46	into	into	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 jumped	obl
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 jumped	nsubj
49	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 reached	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 felt	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 felt	cc
52	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 last	mark
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 last	case
55	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 felt	xcomp
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 safe	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 safe	cop
58	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 last	ccomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a thick wood			between stepmother	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme
2	stop	past	Sigurd			moment		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	set	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here	wood	fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination
4	hasten	participle · passive		Sigurd		then	swiftly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	reach	past	men = man	the grove			with the red trees	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent grove=Theme
6	jump	past	men = man					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into which=Result
7	feel	past					last property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
8	is	past	men = man				safe property	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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