The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 64
She kindled the fire, threw a potful of hemp seed among the ashes, and said to the girl:
Who acts: child · What happens: kindle, throw, say · To what, where: fire, potful, ashes, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kindled | nsubj |
| 2 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kindled | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kindled | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 potful | det |
| 8 | potful | potful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 seed | case |
| 10 | hemp | hemp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seed | compound |
| 11 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 potful | nmod |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 ashes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ashes | det |
| 14 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 threw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kindled | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 girl | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past | child | the fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | a potful of hemp seed | the ashes | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent potful=Theme among ash=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | child not said here | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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