The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 92

Now it was night, and on the crest of the hill Sigurd saw a red fire blazing up into the sky, and within the flame a castle, and a banner on the topmost tower.

Who acts: back, red fire · What happens: be, see, blaze up · To what, where: night, red fire, crest, sky

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, red 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 night	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 night	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 night	cop
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 crest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crest	det
9	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crest	nmod
13	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hill	appos
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fire	det
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fire	amod
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
18	blazing	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 fire	acl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 blazing	compound:prt
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blazing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 castle	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 castle	cc
25	within	within	ADP	_	27 flame	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flame	det
27	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 castle	compound
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 castle	det
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 banner	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 banner	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 banner	det
33	banner	banner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 tower	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tower	det
36	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tower	amod
37	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 banner	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	back	night		now		tree rules
2	see	past		a red fire	the crest of the hill		a flame castle obl; a banner on the topmost tower obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus
3	blaze up	gerund	a red fire not said here		the sky			vn 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 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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