The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 58
A spark of the fireworks had set it alight, and the trunk was in ashes.
Who acts: spark, trunk, fireworks · What happens: set, be, spark · To what, where: trunk, ashes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spark, trunk, fireworks), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spark | det |
| 2 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fireworks | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fireworks | det |
| 5 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spark | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | aux |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | obj |
| 9 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 set | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ashes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ashes | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trunk | det |
| 13 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ashes | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ashes | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ashes | case |
| 16 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect | a spark of the fireworks | trunk | alight property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | the trunk | ashes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spark | the fireworks | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=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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