The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 18
And the herdsman looked and saw the traces of a fire, which seemed to have sprung up from under the earth.
Who acts: herdsman, traces · What happens: look, see, seem, spring up · To what, where: traces, earth
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 (herdsman, traces), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 herdsman | det |
| 3 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 traces | det |
| 8 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traces | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 traces | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sprung | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sprung | aux |
| 17 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 sprung | compound:prt |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 earth | det |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sprung | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the herdsman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the herdsman not said here | the traces of a fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trace=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the traces of a fire | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | spring up | to-infinitive · perfect | the traces of a fire not said here | the earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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