The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 125

The air was yellow; the sun shone so hot, so hot as if it would burn the earth to ashes, and the people were as black as the blackest jet.

Who acts: air, sun, people · What happens: be, shine, burn · To what, where: earth

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, sun, people), 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 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yellow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yellow	cop
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 shone	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shone	nsubj
8	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yellow	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shone	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hot	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 hot	advmod
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 burn	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 burn	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 burn	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 burn	aux
18	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hot	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burn	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 ashes	case
22	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 burn	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 black	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 black	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 people	det
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 black	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 black	cop
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 black	case
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	33 jet	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 jet	det
32	blackest	black	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 jet	amod
33	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 black	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 yellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the air		yellow property	tree rules
2	shine	past	the sun		hot property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be		the air not said here			tree rules
4	burn	would	sun	the earth	to ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
5	is	past	the people		as the blackest jet; black property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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