The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 66

This was very hot and tiring work, and when she had fed the fire and heaped up in a corner the sticks that were to supply it till the next day, she often threw herself down under a tree, and went sound asleep.

Who acts: This, third, sticks · What happens: be, feed, heap up, supply, throw down, go · To what, where: fire, corner, third, tree

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, third, sticks), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 work	cc
6	tiring	tiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fed	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 fed	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fed	aux
13	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 hot	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heaped	cc
17	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fed	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 heaped	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 corner	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 corner	det
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heaped	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sticks	det
23	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 corner	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 supply	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 supply	aux
26	to	to	PART	_	27 supply	mark
27	supply	supply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sticks	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 supply	obj
29	till	till	ADP	_	32 day	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 supply	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 threw	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 threw	nsubj
35	often	often	ADV	_	36 threw	advmod
36	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	parataxis
37	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 threw	obj
38	down	down	ADP	_	36 threw	compound:prt
39	under	under	ADP	_	41 tree	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tree	det
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 threw	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 went	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 went	cc
44	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 threw	conj
45	sound	sound	ADV	_	46 asleep	advmod
46	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 went	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	This				hot property	tree rules
2	feed	past · perfect	third	the fire				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient
3	heap up	participle	third not said here		a corner the sticks			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination
4	supply	past	the sticks	fire		day		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	throw down	past	third	third	a tree		often property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme under tree=Destination
6	go	past	third not said here				asleep property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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