The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 57
Then he stirred the fire, blew it up, and placed them all round in a circle, that they might warm themselves.
Who acts: wind, seven · What happens: stir, blow up, place, warm · To what, where: fire, seven, circle
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 (wind, seven), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stirred | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stirred | nsubj |
| 3 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stirred | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 blew | punct |
| 7 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stirred | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blew | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 blew | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stirred | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 placed | obj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 round | advmod |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 placed | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 circle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 circle | det |
| 18 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 warm | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 warm | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 warm | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 warm | aux |
| 23 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 placed | conj |
| 24 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 warm | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stirred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | past | wind | the fire | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | blow up | past | wind not said here | fire | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | place | past | wind not said here | seven | a circle | round property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in circle=Destination | ||
| 4 | warm | might | seven | seven | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
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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