The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 20

The bear chief and all his servants were burnt up in the flames, but his sister and all that belonged to her were spared because she had tried to save the two elder boys from punishment.

Who acts: sister · What happens: burnt up, belong, spare, try, save · To what, where: bear chief, flames, sister, two elder boys, punishment

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 chief	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chief	compound
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 servants	cc
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 servants	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 servants	nmod:poss
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chief	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burnt	aux:pass
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 burnt	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 flames	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flames	det
13	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burnt	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spared	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 spared	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spared	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 all	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 sister	appos
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 belonged	nsubj
21	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sister	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 belonged	obl
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spared	aux:pass
25	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 burnt	conj
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 tried	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tried	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tried	aux
29	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 spared	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 save	mark
31	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tried	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boys	det
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 boys	nummod
34	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boys	amod
35	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 save	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 punishment	case
37	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 boys	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	burnt up	past · passive		the bear chief and chief's servants		the flames	tree rules
2	belong	past	chief's sister		sister		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	spare	past · passive		chief's sister			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset
4	try	past · perfect	sister				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	sister not said here	the two elder boys		punishment	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent boy=Theme from punishment=Source

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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