The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 88
The fire-eater laughed again, and blew a flame at Makoma.
Who acts: fire eater · What happens: laugh, blow · To what, where: flame, Makoma
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire eater), 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 | 4 eater | det |
| 2 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eater | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fire | punct |
| 4 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blew | cc |
| 9 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flame | det |
| 11 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blew | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Makoma | case |
| 13 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 blew | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the fire eater | again | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | the fire eater not said here | a flame | Makoma | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flame=Patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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