The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 69

The twigs cracked and the flame blazed up, and a slim yellow dog pushed through the bushes and laid his head on the king’s knee, and the king stroked his head.

Who acts: twigs, flame, slim yellow dog, king · What happens: crack, blaze up, push, lay, stroke · To what, where: slim yellow dog, bushes, head, knee

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 (twigs, flame, slim yellow dog, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 twigs	det
2	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cracked	nsubj
3	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blazed	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flame	det
6	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blazed	nsubj
7	blazed	blaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cracked	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 blazed	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laid	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 laid	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
12	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	nsubj
15	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 dog	acl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 bushes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bushes	det
18	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pushed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pushed	cc
20	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cracked	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 knee	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knee	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 king	case
27	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stroked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stroked	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stroked	nsubj
32	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cracked	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stroked	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cracked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	crack	past	the twigs			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blaze up	participle	the flame			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	push	participle		a slim yellow dog not said here	the bushes	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through bush=Trajectory
4	lay	past	a slim yellow dog	dog's head	the king's knee	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on knee=Destination
5	stroke	past	the king	dog's head		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer

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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