The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 80

And, as he stood, soldiers came and laid hands on him, and led him up to the cask, where a big fire was blazing, and the horrid black pitch boiling and bubbling over the sides.

Who acts: boy, soldiers, big fire · What happens: stand, come, lay, lead up, blaze, bubble · To what, where: horrid black pitch boiling, hands, boy, sides

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 (boy, soldiers, big 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 stood	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 stood	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laid	cc
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laid	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 led	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 led	cc
16	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 led	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 led	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 cask	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cask	det
21	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 led	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 blazing	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 blazing	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fire	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fire	amod
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 blazing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 blazing	aux
28	blazing	blaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 cask	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 boiling	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 boiling	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boiling	det
32	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boiling	amod
33	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boiling	amod
34	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 boiling	compound
35	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bubbling	cc
37	bubbling	bubble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 boiling	conj
38	over	over	ADP	_	40 sides	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sides	det
40	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bubbling	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	boy	the horrid black pitch boiling			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	soldiers				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	past	soldiers not said here	hands		on boy	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on he=Destination
4	lead up	past	boy not said here	boy		to the cask	tree rules
5	blaze	past · progressive	a big fire				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bubble	gerund	boy not said here		the sides		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over side=Location

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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