The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 74
The sparks were scattered in every direction, and one fell on the net, making a little blaze.
Who acts: one · What happens: scatter, fall, make · To what, where: sparks, direction, net, little blaze
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 (one), 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 | 2 sparks | det |
| 2 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scattered | aux:pass |
| 4 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 direction | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 direction | det |
| 7 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scattered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scattered | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 net | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 net | det |
| 14 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 making | punct |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fell | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blaze | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blaze | amod |
| 19 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 making | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past · passive | the sparks | every direction | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in direction=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | one | the net | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on net=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | one not said here | a little blaze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blaze=Product |
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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