The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 94

Then in an instant they felt warm again, for the fire, driven by the strong wind, had followed them right down to the bottom of the pool, where it burned as brightly as ever.

Who acts: people, pool · What happens: feel, drive, follow, burn · To what, where: fire, people, bottom

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 (people, pool), 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	4 instant	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 instant	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 instant	det
4	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	xcomp
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 warm	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fire	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 driven	punct
14	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fire	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 wind	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wind	det
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wind	amod
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 driven	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 followed	punct
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 followed	aux
21	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 felt	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 followed	obj
23	right	right	ADV	_	24 down	advmod
24	down	down	ADV	_	21 followed	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 bottom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 followed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pool	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pool	det
30	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bottom	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 burned	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 burned	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 burned	nsubj
34	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pool	acl:relcl
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 brightly	advmod
36	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	34 burned	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 ever	case
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 brightly	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	people			in a instant; warm property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in instant=Attribute
2	drive	participle		the fire not said here		by the strong wind	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	follow	past · perfect	people not said here	people	the bottom of the pool	down property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bottom=Trajectory
4	burn	past	pool			brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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 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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