The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 1

By this time spring once more reigned in the valley, and the gnome sent the fires back to their places in the deeps of the earth, for the roots which they had kept warm through all the cruel winter had now come to their full size.

Who acts: gnome · What happens: reign, send back, keep, come · To what, where: valley, fires, places, full size

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnome), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 spring	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 spring	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spring	compound
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reigned	obl
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 reigned	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 reigned	advmod
7	reigned	reign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reigned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sent	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gnome	det
14	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	nsubj
15	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reigned	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fires	det
17	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sent	obj
18	back	back	ADV	_	15 sent	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 places	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 places	nmod:poss
21	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sent	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 deeps	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 deeps	det
24	deeps	deep	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 places	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 earth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 earth	det
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 deeps	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 roots	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 roots	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roots	det
31	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sent	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 kept	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 kept	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 kept	aux
35	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 roots	acl:relcl
36	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 kept	xcomp
37	through	through	ADP	_	41 winter	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 winter	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 winter	det
40	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 winter	amod
41	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	obl
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
43	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 come	advmod
44	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 kept	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 size	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 size	nmod:poss
47	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 size	amod
48	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reign	participle			the valley	spring	once property	tree rules
2	send back	past	the gnome	the fires	fires's places in the deeps of the earth		for the roots	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme to place=Destination
3	keep	past · perfect · passive		fires = fire			warm property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute
4	come	past · perfect			fires's full size	now; winter		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to size=Initial_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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