The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 73

“I wish that a spark of fire would fall on my net,” whispered he; and the next minute a great log fell forward into the midst of the tent, causing every one to spring backwards.

Who acts: I, spark, next minute, fire · What happens: wish, fall, whisper, cause, spark · To what, where: net, spark, midst, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (I, spark, next minute, fire), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 whispered	parataxis
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 fall	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spark	det
6	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fall	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fire	case
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spark	nmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fall	aux
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wish	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 net	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 net	nmod:poss
13	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fall	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 whispered	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 fell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fell	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 minute	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 minute	amod
22	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	nsubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 log	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 log	amod
25	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 whispered	conj
27	forward	forward	ADV	_	26 fell	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 midst	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 midst	det
30	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 tent	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tent	det
33	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 midst	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 causing	punct
35	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 fell	advcl
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 causing	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 spring	case
39	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 causing	obl
40	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	35 causing	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fall in a quote	would	a spark of fire		my net			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on net=Location
3	whisper speech: assert	past		spark				tree rules
4	fall	past	the next minute				into the midst of the tent result; forward property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into midst=Result
5	cause	gerund	the next minute not said here	every one		spring	backwards property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition one=Patient
6	spark in a quote		fire					nom spark «event intransitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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