The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 88

‘More wood,’ cried Guddhi, and they all ran and gathered wood and heaped it on the flames, which leaped and roared and sputtered.

Who acts: More wood, signs, flames · What happens: cry, run, gather, heap, leap, roar · To what, where: wood, flames

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 (More wood, signs, flames), 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	_	3 wood	punct
2	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 wood	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wood	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wood	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Guddhi	Guddhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 ran	advmod
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gathered	cc
14	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ran	conj
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gathered	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heaped	cc
17	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heaped	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 flames	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flames	det
21	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heaped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaped	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 leaped	nsubj
24	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 flames	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 roared	cc
26	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 leaped	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sputtered	cc
28	sputtered	sputter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 roared	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	More wood			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	signs = sign			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gather	past	signs = sign not said here	wood		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4	heap	past	More wood not said here	wood	the flames	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on flame=Destination
5	leap	past	the flames			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	roar	past	the flames not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sputter	past	the flames not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 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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