The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 26
Cursed be the hearth whereon it was heated, and the smith who formed it!’
Who acts: smith · What happens: curse, be, heat, form · To what, where: Cursed hearth, hearth
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith), 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 | Cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hearth | amod |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hearth | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hearth | det |
| 4 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 heated | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heated | aux:pass |
| 8 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 formed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 formed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smith | det |
| 12 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 formed | nsubj |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heated | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 formed | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 heated | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 heated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | the Cursed hearth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | heat | past · passive | the Cursed hearth | whereon property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | form | past | the smith | hearth | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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