The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 126

On the eighth morning he reached a fire so large that he could see nothing else on either side, but when he struck it with the napkins it parted, and stood on each hand like a wall.

Who acts: Peter, fire · What happens: reach, see, strike, part, stand · To what, where: fire, nothing, side, napkins, hand

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, fire), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 large	advmod
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reached	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 large	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 see	obj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 nothing	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nothing	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 struck	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 struck	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 struck	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 struck	nsubj
24	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 struck	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 napkins	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 napkins	det
28	napkins	napkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 struck	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 parted	nsubj
30	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 napkins	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stood	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stood	cc
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 hand	case
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 hand	det
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	39 wall	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 wall	det
39	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Peter	a fire		morning		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
2	see	could	Peter	nothing	either side			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	strike	past	Peter	fire			with the napkins	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with napkin=Instrument
4	part	past	fire	the napkins not said here				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent napkin=Patient
5	stand	past	Peter not said here		each hand		like a wall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location

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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