The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 65
As before, a bright light leapt out directly the lid was raised, but it did not spring from the lustre of jewels, but from hot flames, which darted along the walls and burnt up the cottage and all that was in it and the mother and daughter as well.
Who acts: bright light, lid, that · What happens: leapt out, raise, do, dart, burnt up, be · To what, where: lid, lustre, hot flames, cottage
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright light, lid, that), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 before | case |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 leapt | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 before | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 light | amod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leapt | nsubj |
| 7 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 leapt | compound:prt |
| 9 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 13 raised | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lid | det |
| 11 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 raised | aux:pass |
| 13 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 leapt | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leapt | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 spring | advmod |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 lustre | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lustre | det |
| 22 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 jewels | case |
| 24 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lustre | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 darted | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 darted | cc |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 flames | case |
| 28 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flames | amod |
| 29 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 darted | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 darted | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 darted | nsubj |
| 32 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leapt | conj |
| 33 | along | along | ADP | _ | 35 walls | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 walls | det |
| 35 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 darted | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 burnt | cc |
| 37 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 darted | conj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 burnt | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cottage | det |
| 40 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 burnt | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 it | cc |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 it | det:predet |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 it | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 it | cop |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 burnt | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 mother | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 mother | det |
| 49 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 it | conj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 daughter | cc |
| 51 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 mother | conj |
| 52 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 49 mother | advmod |
| 53 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 52 as | fixed |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt out | past | a bright light | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | raise | past · passive | the lid | directly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | lid | the lustre of jewels | spring | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | dart | past | hot flames | along the walls | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from flame=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | burnt up | participle | the cottage | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | past | that | lid | tree rules |
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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