The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 91
Flames broke out in the trunk, and before it had burnt up they were as hot as if it had been summer.
Who acts: Flames, trunk · What happens: break out, burnt up, be · To what, where: trunk, summer
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flames, trunk), 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 | Flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 broke | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trunk | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trunk | det |
| 6 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 burnt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 burnt | cc |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 burnt | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 burnt | aux |
| 12 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 broke | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 burnt | compound:prt |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hot | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hot | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 hot | advmod |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 burnt | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 summer | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 summer | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 summer | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 summer | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 summer | cop |
| 23 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hot | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | Flames | the trunk | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trunk=Location | ||||
| 2 | burnt up | past · perfect · passive | trunk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Flames = flame | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | trunk | summer | 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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