The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 96

Then she cracked her second nut, and all the forest behind her seemed to be in fire and flames, and the evil spirits howled even worse than on the previous day; but the contract they would not give up.

Who acts: Spirit, forest, evil spirits, contract · What happens: crack, seem, be, howl, not give up · To what, where: second nut, fire

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: who acts (Spirit, forest, evil spirits, contract), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cracked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cracked	nsubj
3	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nut	nmod:poss
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 nut	amod
6	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cracked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 forest	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forest	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 forest	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cracked	obl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 seemed	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nmod:poss
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forest	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	18 fire	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 fire	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 fire	case
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flames	cc
20	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fire	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 howled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 howled	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spirits	det
24	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 spirits	amod
25	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 howled	nsubj
26	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cracked	conj
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 worse	advmod
28	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 howled	xcomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	33 day	case
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 day	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
32	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 worse	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 give	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 contract	det
37	contract	contract	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	nsubj
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 give	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 give	advmod
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cracked	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 give	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cracked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	Spirit	Spirit's second nut		then	all forest obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
2	seem	past	all forest not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	all forest not said here		fire and flames			tree rules
4	howl	past	the evil spirits				bad property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not give up	would	the contract					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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