The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 52

Ian Direach hearkened to the words of Gille Mairtean, and his stepmother fell as a bundle of sticks before him; and he set fire to her, and was free from her spells for ever.

Who acts: Ian, stepmother · What happens: hearken, fall, set, be, word, spell · To what, where: fire, stepmother, spells, Gille

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian, stepmother), 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	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hearkened	nsubj
2	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ian	flat
3	hearkened	hearken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hearkened	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Gille	case
8	Gille	Gille	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod
9	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Gille	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stepmother	nmod:poss
13	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hearkened	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 bundle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bundle	det
17	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 sticks	case
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bundle	nmod
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sticks	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 set	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj
25	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hearkened	conj
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 free	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 free	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 free	cop
32	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hearkened	parataxis
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 spells	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 spells	nmod:poss
35	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 free	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 ever	case
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 spells	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hearkened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hearken	past	Ian				to the words of Gille	tree rules
2	fall	past	Ian's stepmother				as a bundle of sticks before Ian	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set	past	Ian	fire	stepmother			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
4	is	past				stepmother's spells	free property	tree rules
5	word			Gille				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	spell		stepmother					nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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