The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 11

But when it was dark and all was still, the fox crept downstairs and lit the kitchen fire, and the ogre and his wife were burned to death.

Who acts: pair, all, fox · What happens: be, creep, light, burn · To what, where: kitchen fire, ogre

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pair, all, fox), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 dark	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 dark	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 still	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 still	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 still	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	5 dark	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crept	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crept	nsubj
13	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	advcl
14	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	13 crept	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lit	cc
16	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crept	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fire	compound
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lit	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 burned	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 burned	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ogre	det
23	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burned	nsubj:pass
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wife	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ogre	conj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 burned	aux:pass
28	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 crept	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burned	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	pair		dark property	tree rules
2	is	past	all		still property	tree rules
3	creep	past	the fox		downstairs property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	light	past	the fox not said here	the kitchen fire		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
5	burn	past · passive		the ogre and fox's wife	to death	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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