The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 78

But as the time drew near, and nothing was heard of the princess, the youth became anxious and uneasy, especially when it came to his ears that the great cask was being filled with pitch, and that sticks were laid underneath to make a fire to boil it with.

Who acts: time, youth, star, fire · What happens: draw, hear, become, come, fill, lay · To what, where: nothing, ears, great cask, sticks, fire, star

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, youth, star, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 drew	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 drew	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	near	near	ADV	_	5 drew	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 heard	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux:pass
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 drew	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 princess	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	parataxis
19	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 became	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 uneasy	cc
21	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 anxious	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
23	especially	especially	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 became	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 ears	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ears	nmod:poss
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 came	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 filled	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cask	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cask	amod
33	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 filled	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 filled	aux:pass
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 filled	aux:pass
36	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 came	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 pitch	case
38	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 filled	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 laid	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 laid	cc
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 laid	mark
42	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 laid	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 laid	aux:pass
44	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 became	conj
45	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	44 laid	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 make	mark
47	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 laid	advcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 fire	det
49	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 make	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 boil	mark
51	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 make	xcomp
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 boil	obj
53	with	with	ADP	_	51 boil	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the time			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past · passive		nothing		of the princess	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	become	past	the youth			anxious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	star		boy's ears	especially property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location
5	fill	past · passive		the great cask		with pitch	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pitch=Instrument
6	lay	past · passive		sticks		underneath property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
7	make	to-infinitive		a fire			tree rules
8	boil	to-infinitive	a fire not said here	star			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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