The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 89
Toward midnight he wanted to make up the fire, and as he was blowing up a blaze he heard a shriek from a corner.
Who acts: King · What happens: want, make up, blow up, hear · To what, where: fire, blaze, shriek, corner
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 (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 | Toward | toward | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 make | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 blowing | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 blowing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 blowing | aux |
| 15 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 heard | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 blowing | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blaze | det |
| 18 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blowing | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 shriek | det |
| 22 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 corner | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 corner | det |
| 25 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | King | midnight | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make up not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | the fire | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | blow up | past · progressive | King | a blaze | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blaze=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | King | a shriek | a corner | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shriek=Topic from corner=Source |
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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