The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 65

When the sun set they lit a fire of dry grass, and placed themselves in a row, Snowflake being the last of all.

Who acts: sun, eyes, Snowflake · What happens: set, light, place, be, fire · To what, where: fire, eyes, row, dry grass

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, eyes, Snowflake), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	advcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lit	nsubj
6	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fire	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 placed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 placed	cc
14	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	conj
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 placed	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 row	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 row	det
18	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Snowflake	punct
20	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 last	nsubj
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 last	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 last	det
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 row	acl:relcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 last	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	the sun				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	light	past	eyes = eye	a fire of dry grass			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	place	past	eyes = eye not said here	eyes = eye	a row		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in row=Destination
4	is	gerund	Snowflake	a row not said here		of all; last property	tree rules
5	fire			dry grass			nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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