The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 92

‘If I do,’ continued the knight, ‘I shall then meet a sort of fairy armed with a needle of fire which burns to ashes all it touches.

Who acts: knight, I, needle, fire · What happens: continue, meet, armed, burn, touch, sort · To what, where: sort, fairy, all

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, I, needle, fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:2382): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 meet	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 do	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 meet	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 meet	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knight	det
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 continued	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 meet	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 meet	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 meet	aux
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 meet	advmod
15	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sort	det
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meet	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fairy	case
19	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sort	nmod
20	armed	armed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 fairy	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 needle	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 needle	det
23	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 armed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 fire	case
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 needle	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 burns	nsubj
27	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 needle	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 ashes	case
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 burns	obl
30	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	27 burns	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 touches	nsubj
32	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 all	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the knight				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	shall	I	a sort of fairy	then		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Co-Agent
3	armed	participle		fairy not said here		with a needle of fire	tree rules
4	burn	present	a needle of fire	all		to ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent all=Theme
5	touch	present	fire				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sort			fairy			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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