The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 22
In front was the korigan--the little fairy man--holding in his hand the fiery sword, which reduced to ashes everything it touched.
Who acts: korigan, fiery sword, sword · What happens: be, hold, reduce, touch · To what, where: korigan, front, fiery sword, hand, everything, ashes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (korigan, fiery sword, sword), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 korigan | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 korigan | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 korigan | det |
| 5 | korigan | korigan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 korigan | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 holding | punct |
| 12 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 korigan | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sword | det |
| 17 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sword | amod |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reduced | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 reduced | nsubj |
| 21 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sword | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ashes | case |
| 23 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 reduced | obl |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 reduced | obj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 touched | nsubj |
| 26 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 everything | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 korigan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the korigan and the little fairy man | front | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the korigan and the little fairy man not said here | the fiery sword | colt's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | reduce | past | the fiery sword | everything | to ashes goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer everything=Patient to ash=Goal | |||
| 4 | touch | past | sword | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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