The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 77

‘We shall die of cold unless we can light the fire again,’ and he bade his sons rub two sticks together in the hope of kindling a flame, but though they rubbed till they were tired, not a spark could they produce.

Who acts: We, Thuggai, sons, hope, sticks, spark · What happens: die, light, bade, rub, kindle, be · To what, where: fire, two sticks, hope, flame

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Thuggai, sons, hope), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cold	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 die	obl
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	10 light	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 light	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 light	aux
10	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	obj
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 light	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bade	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bade	nsubj
18	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 die	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sons	nmod:poss
20	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rub	nsubj
21	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bade	ccomp
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sticks	nummod
23	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rub	obj
24	together	together	ADV	_	21 rub	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hope	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hope	det
27	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rub	obl
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 kindling	mark
29	kindling	kindle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 hope	acl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 flame	det
31	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kindling	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 produce	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 produce	cc
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 rubbed	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 rubbed	nsubj
36	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 produce	advcl
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 tired	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tired	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 tired	cop
40	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rubbed	ccomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 produce	punct
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 produce	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 spark	det
44	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 produce	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 produce	aux
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 produce	nsubj
47	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	shall	We				of cold	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer
2	light a condition, not said to happen	can	we	the fire		again		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	bade	past	Thuggai					tree rules
4	rub	present	Thuggai's sons	two sticks	the hope		together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in hope=Destination
5	kindle	gerund	the hope not said here	a flame				vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flame=Patient
6	rub	past	sticks = stick					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	sticks = stick				tired property	tree rules
8	not produce	could	a spark					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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