The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 77

Oh, well, it will serve to light a fire at which I can warm myself; so things might be worse after all.'

Who acts: use, I, things · What happens: serve, light, warm, be · To what, where: fire, myself

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (use, I, things), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 serve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	well	well	INTJ	_	7 serve	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 serve	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 serve	aux
7	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 light	mark
9	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 serve	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 light	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 warm	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 warm	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 warm	aux
16	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 light	advcl
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 warm	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 worse	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 worse	advmod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 worse	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 worse	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 worse	cop
23	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 serve	conj
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 worse	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 serve	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 serve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	serve	future	use				tree rules
2	light	to-infinitive	use not said here	a fire			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	warm	can	I	myself			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
4	is	might	things		after all	bad property	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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