The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 93
The lightning flashed, the thunder rattled, fire bolts fell from heaven, burning up the forests and even the fields of corn.
Who acts: lightning, fire bolts · What happens: flash, rattle, fall, burn up · To what, where: thunder, heaven, forests
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning, fire bolts), 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 | 2 lightning | det |
| 2 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flashed | nsubj |
| 3 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thunder | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thunder | det |
| 6 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flashed | obj |
| 7 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flashed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bolts | compound |
| 10 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flashed | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 heaven | case |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 burning | punct |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 fell | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 burning | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forests | det |
| 18 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burning | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fields | cc |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 fields | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fields | det |
| 22 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 forests | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 corn | case |
| 24 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fields | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | the lightning | the thunder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rattle | participle | the lightning not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | fire bolts | heaven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | burn up | gerund | fire bolts not said here | the forests and the fields of corn | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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