The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 68

The whole night was ablaze with northern lights, and then they came to Finland and knocked at the Finland woman’s chimney, for door she had none.

Who acts: whole night, lights, woman · What happens: be, come, knock, have · To what, where: Finland, none

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole night, lights, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ablaze	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ablaze	cop
5	ablaze	ablaze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lights	case
7	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lights	amod
8	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ablaze	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 came	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ablaze	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Finland	case
15	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knocked	cc
17	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	23 chimney	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 woman	compound
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chimney	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 woman	case
23	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knocked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 door	case
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 knocked	conj
29	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	28 had	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ablaze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whole night				with northern lights; ablaze property	tree rules
2	come	past	lights = light		Finland	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to finland=Initial_Location
3	knock	past	lights = light not said here				at the Finland woman's chimney	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at chimney=Patient
4	have	past	woman	none			for door	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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