The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 2

In a little valley he saw the heather burning and the fire spreading fast towards the anthill, and all the ants were hurrying to and fro, not knowing whither to go.

Who acts: Gwythyr, fire, ants · What happens: see, spread, hurry, fro, not know, go · To what, where: heather burning, little valley, anthill

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gwythyr, fire, ants), 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	_	4 valley	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 valley	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 valley	amod
4	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 burning	det
8	heather	heather	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 burning	amod
9	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fire	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burning	conj
13	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fire	acl
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 spreading	advmod
15	towards	towards	ADP	_	17 anthill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 anthill	det
17	anthill	anthill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spreading	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hurrying	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hurrying	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 ants	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ants	det
22	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hurrying	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hurrying	aux
24	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saw	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 hurrying	fixed
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fro	cc
27	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hurrying	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knowing	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 knowing	advmod
30	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 hurrying	advcl
31	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	33 go	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 knowing	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Gwythyr	the heather burning and the fire	a little valley		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer burning=Stimulus
2	spread	gerund	the fire not said here		the anthill	fast property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards anthill=Destination
3	hurry	past · progressive	all ants				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fro	infinitive	all ants not said here				tree rules
5	not know	gerund	all ants not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go	to-infinitive	all ants not said here			whither 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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