The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 101
A flame kindled in my heart, and I asked myself where she could go and what she could do.
Who acts: flame, I · What happens: kindle, ask, go, do · To what, where: heart, myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flame, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flame | det |
| 2 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kindled | nsubj |
| 3 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kindled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kindled | parataxis |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 go | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past | a flame | my heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | I | myself | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | could | flame | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | could | flame | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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