The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 82

When Prince Ring heard this he fell into such a rage that he ordered the house to be set on fire, and it was burnt to the ground, with the witch and her brother in it.

Who acts: Prince, husband · What happens: hear, fall, order, set, burnt · To what, where: this, rage, house, fire

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, husband), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	flat
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 rage	case
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 rage	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rage	det
11	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 ordered	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordered	nsubj
14	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ordered	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 set	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 set	aux:pass
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 house	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 fire	case
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 burnt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 burnt	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 burnt	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 burnt	aux:pass
26	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fell	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burnt	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 witch	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 witch	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 witch	det
33	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burnt	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 brother	cc
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 brother	nmod:poss
36	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 witch	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 brother	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Prince	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	fall	past	husband			into such rage result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result
3	order	past	husband	the house			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	set	to-infinitive · passive	husband not said here	the house not said here	fire		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on fire=Destination
5	burnt	past · passive		house		to the ground; with the witch and princess's brother in ground	tree rules

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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