The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 142

At a little distance he saw a fire, and beside it there sat three giants, busy with broth and beef.

Who acts: Rasmus, fire · What happens: see, sit · To what, where: fire, three giants

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 distance	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 distance	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distance	amod
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	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 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 sat	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sat	advmod
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 giants	nummod
16	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 busy	punct
18	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sat	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 broth	case
20	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 busy	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beef	cc
22	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 broth	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Rasmus	a fire				at a little distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus
2	sit	past	fire	three giants		there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=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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