The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 83

His demons and peris. collected amber-wood and made a pile, and would have set me on it, when I remembered the word of life which the two peris.

Who acts: I, word · What happens: collect, make, set, remember, peri, word · To what, where: demons, pile, me, word, life

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 (I, word), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 demons	nmod:poss
2	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 collected	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 peris	cc
4	peris	peris	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demons	conj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 collected	punct
6	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wood	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 amber	punct
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 collected	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 collected	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pile	det
13	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 set	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 set	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	aux
18	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 collected	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 set	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 remembered	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 remembered	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 remembered	nsubj
25	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 collected	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 word	det
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remembered	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 life	case
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 word	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 peris	nsubj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 peris	det
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 peris	nummod
33	peris	peri	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 word	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	collect	participle · passive		man's demons and peris		tree rules
2	make	past		a pile		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pile=Product
3	set	would · perfect		me	pile	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on it=Destination
4	remember	past	I	the word of life		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	peri		the word of life			tree rules
6	word			life		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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