The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 68

‘I will sleep here,’ he said to himself, ‘but first I will make a fire,’ And he gathered together some twigs that were lying about, and then took two dry sticks and rubbed them together till the fire came, and he sat by it.

Who acts: I, darkness, twigs, fire · What happens: sleep, say, make, gather, lie, take · To what, where: darkness, fire, two dry sticks, sticks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, darkness, twigs, fire), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sleep	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 make	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 gathered	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gathered	nsubj
25	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
26	together	together	ADV	_	25 gathered	advmod
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 twigs	det
28	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lying	nsubj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lying	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lying	aux
31	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 gathered	ccomp
32	about	about	ADV	_	31 lying	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 took	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 took	advmod
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 sticks	nummod
38	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sticks	amod
39	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 took	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 rubbed	cc
41	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 took	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 rubbed	obj
43	together	together	ADV	_	41 rubbed	advmod
44	till	till	SCONJ	_	47 came	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fire	det
46	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	nsubj
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 rubbed	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 sat	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sat	cc
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 sat	nsubj
51	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 took	conj
52	by	by	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 sat	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	future	I			here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	darkness		darkness				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	make	future	I	a fire				first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
4	gather	past	darkness					together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	lie	past · progressive	some twigs					about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	past		two dry sticks			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
7	rub	past		sticks = stick				together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	come	past	the fire						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	sit	past	darkness					by fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location

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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