The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 58
But they sat there and did not move, and the fire caught their clothes.
Who acts: seven, fire · What happens: sit, not move, catch · To what, where: clothes
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 (seven, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 move | cc |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 move | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 move | advmod |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caught | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | nsubj |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 caught | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | seven | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not move | past · do-support | seven not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | the fire | seven's clothes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=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 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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