The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 95

And the fishes gathered round it as they had done on the top of the cliff, and found the flames as hot as before, and that fire never went out, like those upon land, but kept burning for ever.

Who acts: fishes, fire · What happens: gather, do, find, not go out, keep, burn · To what, where: top, 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 (fishes, fire), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 gathered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fishes	det
3	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gathered	nsubj
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gathered	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 done	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 gathered	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cliff	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cliff	det
16	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flames	det
21	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 found	obj
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 hot	advmod
23	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flames	amod
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 before	case
25	before	before	ADV	_	23 hot	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	nsubj
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 went	advmod
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	conj
32	out	out	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 those	punct
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 those	case
35	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 went	obl
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 land	case
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 those	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 kept	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 kept	cc
40	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
41	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 kept	xcomp
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 ever	case
43	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 burning	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the fishes			round pool	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · perfect	fishes = fish		the top of the cliff		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past		the flames			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Topic
4	not go out	past	that fire			like those; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep	past	the fishes not said here				tree rules
6	burn	gerund	the fishes not said here				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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