The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 10

There was a large house, and the fire was burning so brightly inside that he could tell that the people were not in bed.

Who acts: large house, fire, people · What happens: be, burn, tell, not be · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large house, fire, people), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 burning	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 burning	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burning	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burning	aux
11	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 brightly	advmod
13	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	11 burning	advmod
14	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 tell	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 tell	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 burning	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 bed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bed	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bed	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 bed	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 bed	case
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a large house	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	past · progressive	the fire		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	could	fire			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	the people	bed		tree rules

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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