The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 105
When he returned he blew up the sparks of the fire once more, and warmed himself.
Who acts: other, fire · What happens: return, blow up, warm, spark · To what, where: sparks, other
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blew | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blew | nsubj |
| 5 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 blew | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sparks | det |
| 8 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blew | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sparks | nmod |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 blew | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warmed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 warmed | cc |
| 16 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blew | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 warmed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | other | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blow up | past | other | the sparks of the fire | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent spark=Patient | ||||
| 3 | warm | past | other not said here | other | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spark | the fire | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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