The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 48

The fire had to be passed through before he had gone very far, and when he came to it, Peter shook the napkins three times in the flames and a passage opened for trim.

Who acts: fire, Peter · What happens: have, pass, go, come, shake, open · To what, where: heart, napkins, flames, passage

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, Peter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 passed	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 passed	aux:pass
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
7	through	through	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 passed	advcl
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 gone	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shook	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 shook	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shook	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
22	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 shook	nsubj
23	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 napkins	det
25	napkins	napkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shook	obj
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shook	obl:unmarked
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 flames	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 flames	det
30	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shook	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 passage	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 passage	det
33	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flames	conj
34	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 passage	acl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 trim	case
36	trim	trim	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 opened	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fire					tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive · passive	the fire not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»
3	go	past · perfect	fire				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	fire		heart			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
5	shake	past	Peter	the napkins	the flames and a passage	time		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent napkin=Theme in flame=Trajectory
6	open	participle		a passage not said here			for trim	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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