The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 88

But just as she had been bound to the stake, and the flames were licking her garments with their red tongues, the very last moment of the seven years had come.

Who acts: flames, last moment · What happens: bind, lick, come · To what, where: Queen, garments, red tongues

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, last moment), 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	_	7 bound	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	7 bound	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bound	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bound	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bound	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bound	aux:pass
7	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 stake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stake	det
10	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bound	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 licking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 licking	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 flames	det
14	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 licking	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 licking	aux
16	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 bound	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 garments	nmod:poss
18	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 licking	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 tongues	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tongues	nmod:poss
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tongues	amod
22	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 licking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tongues	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moment	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 last	advmod
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 moment	amod
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 years	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 years	det
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 moment	nmod
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 tongues	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bind	past · perfect · passive		Queen	to the stake	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to stake=Co-Patient
2	lick	past · progressive	the flames	Queen's garments	with flames's red tongues	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent garment=Experiencer with tongue=Instrument
3	come	past · perfect	the last moment of the seven years	flames's red tongues not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tongue=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 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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