The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 94

Some built strong barriers to hold back the fiery rivers in the earth’s heart, and some had scalding vapours to change dull stones to precious metal, or were hard at work filling every cranny of the rocks with diamonds and rubies; for Rübezahl loved all pretty things.

Who acts: Some, scalding vapours · What happens: build, hold back, have, change, be, fill · To what, where: strong barriers, fiery rivers, heart, scalding vapours, dull stones, work

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 (Some, scalding vapours), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 barriers	amod
4	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hold	mark
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 built	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 hold	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rivers	det
9	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rivers	amod
10	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 heart	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heart	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 earth	case
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	parataxis
20	scalding	scalding	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 vapours	compound
21	vapours	vapour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 change	mark
23	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
24	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stones	amod
25	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 change	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 metal	case
27	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 metal	amod
28	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 change	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hard	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 hard	cc
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hard	cop
32	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 had	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 work	case
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hard	obl
35	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 hard	advcl
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 cranny	det
37	cranny	cranny	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 filling	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 rocks	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rocks	det
40	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 cranny	nmod
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 diamonds	case
42	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 rocks	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rubies	cc
44	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 diamonds	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 loved	punct
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 Rübezahl	case
47	Rübezahl	Rübezahl	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 loved	obl
48	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	conj
49	all	all	ADV	_	50 pretty	advmod
50	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 things	amod
51	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 loved	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past	Some	strong barriers			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset barrier=Product
2	hold back	to-infinitive	Some not said here	the fiery rivers	the earth's heart		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent river=Theme in heart=Location
3	have	past	some	scalding vapours			tree rules
4	change	to-infinitive	scalding vapours not said here	dull stones		to precious metal	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
5	is	past	some not said here		work	hard property	tree rules
6	fill	gerund	some not said here	every cranny of the rocks with diamonds and rubies			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cranny=Patient
7	love	past	Some not said here	pretty things		for Rübezahl	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus for rübezahl=Attribute

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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