The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 95
In a short time the old woman had to go to the fireplace to stir the fire, and when the blaze lit up Halvor, as it used to do when he was at home raking up the ashes, she knew him again.
Who acts: old woman, blaze, Halvor, home, woman · What happens: have, go, stir, lit up, use, do · To what, where: fireplace, fire, home, ashes, Halvor
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, blaze, Halvor, home), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 fireplace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fireplace | det |
| 13 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stir | mark |
| 15 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stir | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lit | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lit | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 lit | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 blaze | det |
| 22 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lit | nsubj |
| 23 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 had | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 lit | compound:prt |
| 25 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lit | obl:agent |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 used | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 used | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 used | nsubj |
| 29 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 used | xcomp |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 home | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 home | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 home | cop |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 home | case |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 do | obl |
| 37 | raking | rake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 home | acl |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 raking | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ashes | det |
| 40 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 raking | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 knew | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 knew | nsubj |
| 43 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 used | conj |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 knew | obj |
| 45 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 knew | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old woman | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | the fireplace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fireplace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stir | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | the fire | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lit up | participle | the blaze | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | use | past | blaze | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | blaze not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | Halvor | home | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | rake up | gerund | home not said here | the ashes | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ash=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | know | past | woman | Halvor | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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