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The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 55

The thunder crashed, and the lightning seemed as if it must burn up everything; the two basilisks appeared, one on each side of the bad Dwarf, like giants, mountains high, and fire flew from their mouths and ears, until they looked like flaming furnaces.

Who acts: thunder, lightning, two basilisks, fire, basilisks · What happens: crash, seem, burn up, appear, fly, look · To what, where: everything, one, side, mouths

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thunder, lightning, two basilisks, 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

detnsubjpunctccdetnsubjparataxismarkmarknsubjauxxcompcompound:prtobjpunctdetnummodnsubjconjpunctobjcasedetnmodcasedetamodnmodpunctcaseoblpunctobl:unmarkedamodpunctccnsubjparataxiscasenmod:possoblccconjpunctmarknsubjconjcaseamodoblpunctrootTheDETthunderNOUNcrashedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETlightningNOUNseemedVERBasSCONJifSCONJitPRONmustAUXburnVERBupADPeverythingPRON;PUNCTtheDETtwoNUMbasilisksNOUNappearedVERB,PUNCToneNUMonADPeachDETsideNOUNofADPtheDETbadADJDwarfPROPN,PUNCTlikeADPgiantsNOUN,PUNCTmountainsNOUNhighADJ,PUNCTandCCONJfireNOUNflewVERBfromADPtheirPRONmouthsNOUNandCCONJearsNOUN,PUNCTuntilSCONJtheyPRONlookedVERBlikeADPflamingVERBfurnacesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 thunderdet
2thunderthunderNOUNNumber=Sing3 crashednsubj
3crashedcrashVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_8 seemedpunct
5andandCCONJ_8 seemedcc
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 lightningdet
7lightninglightningNOUNNumber=Sing8 seemednsubj
8seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 crashedparataxis
9asasSCONJ_13 burnmark
10ififSCONJ_13 burnmark
11ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 burnnsubj
12mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin13 burnaux
13burnburnVERBVerbForm=Inf8 seemedxcomp
14upupADP_13 burncompound:prt
15everythingeverythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot13 burnobj
16;;PUNCT_20 appearedpunct
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 basilisksdet
18twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 basilisksnummod
19basilisksbasiliskNOUNNumber=Plur20 appearednsubj
20appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 crashedconj
21,,PUNCT_22 onepunct
22oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card20 appearedobj
23ononADP_25 sidecase
24eacheachDETPronType=Tot25 sidedet
25sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing22 onenmod
26ofofADP_29 Dwarfcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Dwarfdet
28badbadADJDegree=Pos29 Dwarfamod
29DwarfDwarfPROPNNumber=Sing25 sidenmod
30,,PUNCT_32 giantspunct
31likelikeADP_32 giantscase
32giantsgiantNOUNNumber=Plur20 appearedobl
33,,PUNCT_34 mountainspunct
34mountainsmountainNOUNNumber=Plur35 highobl:unmarked
35highhighADJDegree=Pos32 giantsamod
36,,PUNCT_39 flewpunct
37andandCCONJ_39 flewcc
38firefireNOUNNumber=Sing39 flewnsubj
39flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 crashedparataxis
40fromfromADP_42 mouthscase
41theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 mouthsnmod:poss
42mouthsmouthNOUNNumber=Plur39 flewobl
43andandCCONJ_44 earscc
44earsearNOUNNumber=Plur42 mouthsconj
45,,PUNCT_48 lookedpunct
46untiluntilSCONJ_48 lookedmark
47theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs48 lookednsubj
48lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 flewconj
49likelikeADP_51 furnacescase
50flamingflameVERBVerbForm=Ger51 furnacesamod
51furnacesfurnaceNOUNNumber=Plur48 lookedobl
52..PUNCT_3 crashedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1crashpastthe thundervn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2seempastthe lightningvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3burn up a condition, not said to happenmustlightningeverythingvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4appearpastthe two basilisksoneeach side of the bad Dwarflike giantsvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
5flypastfirebasilisks's mouths and earsvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory
6lookpastbasilisks = basilisklike flaming furnacesvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7flamegerundvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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