The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 11
They at once proceeded to light a fire in the huge fireplace; then they placed a great cauldron of boiling water on it.
Who acts: beings · What happens: proceed, light, place, boil · To what, where: fire, huge fireplace, great cauldron, water
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (beings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 proceeded | obl |
| 4 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 light | mark |
| 6 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 proceeded | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fireplace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fireplace | det |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fireplace | amod |
| 12 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 placed | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | nsubj |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cauldron | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cauldron | amod |
| 19 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cauldron | nmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | beings = being | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | light | to-infinitive | beings = being not said here | a fire | the huge fireplace | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 3 | place | past | beings = being | a great cauldron of boiling water | water | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cauldron=Theme on it=Destination | ||
| 4 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 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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