The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 107

Just as Paul came along a cloud containing fire instead of rain burst overhead, and all the little griffins would certainly have been killed had not Paul spread his cloak over the nest and saved them.

Who acts: Paul, cloud · What happens: come, contain, burst, kill, not spread, save · To what, where: fire, cloud, little griffins, cloak, nest, length

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, cloud), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burst	obl
8	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cloud	acl
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 containing	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 rain	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 containing	obl
13	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	13 burst	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 killed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 killed	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 griffins	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 griffins	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 griffins	amod
20	griffins	griffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 killed	nsubj:pass
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 killed	aux
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	25 killed	advmod
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 killed	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 killed	aux:pass
25	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 spread	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 spread	advmod
28	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 spread	nsubj
29	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cloak	nmod:poss
31	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spread	obj
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 nest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 nest	det
34	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spread	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 saved	cc
36	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 spread	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 saved	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Paul				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	contain	gerund	a cloud not said here	fire		instead rain	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme
3	burst	present	Paul not said here		a cloud	overhead property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along cloud=Location
4	kill	would · perfect · passive		all little griffins		certainly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	not spread	past	Paul	Paul's cloak	the nest		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme over nest=Destination
6	save	past	Paul not said here	length			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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