The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 14

All the prose and the poetry that was written just then was about Bellissima--for that was the Princess’s name--and all the bonfires that they had were made of these verses, which crackled and sparkled better than any other sort of wood.

Who acts: that, bonfires, prose, verses · What happens: write, be, have, make, crackle, sparkle · To what, where: poetry, bonfires, wood

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, bonfires, prose, verses), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 prose	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prose	det
3	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 poetry	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poetry	det
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prose	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 written	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 written	aux:pass
9	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 poetry	acl:relcl
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 Bellissima	advmod
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 Bellissima	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Bellissima	cop
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 Bellissima	case
14	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 written	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 name	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	22 name	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 name	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 name	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Princess	det
20	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 name	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Princess	case
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 written	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 made	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 bonfires	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bonfires	det
27	bonfires	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	nsubj:pass
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bonfires	acl:relcl
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux:pass
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 prose	acl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 verses	case
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 verses	det
35	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 crackled	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 crackled	nsubj
38	crackled	crackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 verses	acl:relcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sparkled	cc
40	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 crackled	conj
41	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 sparkled	advmod
42	than	than	ADP	_	45 sort	case
43	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 sort	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sort	amod
45	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 better	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 wood	case
47	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sort	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		the poetry			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past			then	about Bellissima	tree rules
3	is	past	that			for the Princess's name	tree rules
4	have	past	bonfires = bonfire	all bonfires			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
5	make	past · passive	all prose and the poetry not said here	all bonfires		of this verses	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
6	crackle	past	this verses				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sparkle	past	this verses not said here			well property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sort			wood			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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