The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 93
At this sparks of fire flew out of all the trees, and the evil spirits howled as if they were being scourged back to their abode.
What happens: fly out, howl, scourge · To what, where: trees, sparks, evil spirits
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sparks | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sparks | det |
| 3 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 trees | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trees | det |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spirits | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spirits | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spirits | det |
| 15 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spirits | amod |
| 16 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | conj |
| 17 | howled | howl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 spirits | acl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 scourged | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 scourged | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 scourged | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 scourged | aux:pass |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 scourged | aux:pass |
| 23 | scourged | scourge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 howled | advcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 scourged | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 abode | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 abode | nmod:poss |
| 27 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past | all trees | this sparks | of fire | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tree=Theme at spark=Trajectory of fire=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | howl | participle | the evil spirits not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scourge | past · passive | trees = tree | 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 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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