The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 85

Then he knelt by the side of the fire and blew at it for a long while, till slowly the feeble red glow became a little stronger and the edges of the bark showed signs of curling up.

Who acts: Thuggai, feeble red glow, edges, signs · What happens: kneel, blow, become, show, curl up · To what, where: fire, signs

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 (Thuggai, feeble red glow, edges, signs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 knelt	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knelt	nsubj
3	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knelt	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blew	cc
11	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knelt	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blew	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 while	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 while	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 while	amod
17	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blew	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 became	mark
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	25 became	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 glow	det
22	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 glow	amod
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 glow	amod
24	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knelt	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stronger	obl
28	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 became	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 showed	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 edges	det
31	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 showed	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 bark	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bark	det
34	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 edges	nmod
35	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 became	conj
36	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 showed	obj
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 curling	mark
38	curling	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 signs	acl
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 curling	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel	past	Thuggai			then	by the side of the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
2	blow	past	Thuggai not said here		fire	while		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	become	past	the feeble red glow				slowly, strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	show	past	the edges of the bark	signs				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient
5	curl up	gerund	signs not said here					vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 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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