The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 10
When he came there he saw a great fire kindled, and two youths leading out the maiden to cast her upon the pile.
Who acts: lion, great fire, two youths · What happens: come, see, kindle, lead out, cast · To what, where: maiden, fire, pile · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, great fire, two youths), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fire | amod |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kindled | nsubj |
| 10 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 youths | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 youths | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 youths | nummod |
| 14 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | conj |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 youths | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 leading | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cast | mark |
| 20 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leading | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cast | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 pile | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pile | det |
| 24 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cast | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | lion | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kindle | past | a great fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | lead out | gerund | two youths not said here | the maiden | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cast | to-infinitive | two youths not said here | fire | the pile | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon pile=Destination |
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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