The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 59
The old woman sprang forwards and seized it, but her clothes caught fire, and in a few minutes she was burned to ashes.
Who acts: old woman, clothes · What happens: spring, seize, catch, burn · To what, where: cane, fire, woman
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, clothes), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seized | cc |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seized | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 caught | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 caught | nsubj |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | parataxis |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 burned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 burned | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 minutes | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 minutes | det |
| 19 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 minutes | amod |
| 20 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 burned | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 burned | aux:pass |
| 23 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 caught | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ashes | case |
| 25 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 burned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the old woman | forwards property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | the old woman not said here | cane | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | woman's clothes | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burn | past · passive | woman | minute | to ashes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/59/