The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 60

The hut, which was made of wood, was burned to the ground before the Bad One came back with a large crowd of water-demons.

Who acts: Bad One · What happens: make, burn, come back · To what, where: hut

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bad One), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hut	det
2	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burned	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hut	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hut	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burned	aux:pass
11	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burned	obl
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 One	det
17	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 One	amod
18	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burned	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 crowd	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 crowd	det
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 crowd	amod
24	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 demons	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 demons	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 water	punct
28	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 crowd	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the hut	of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	burn	past · passive		the hut	to the ground	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	come back	past	the Bad One		with a large crowd of water demons	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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