The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 57
Then the King saw a huge fire burning under the iron room, and understood that he could do no harm to the Six in this way.
Who acts: King, huge fire · What happens: see, burn, understand, do · To what, where: huge fire, iron room, harm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, huge fire), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fire | amod |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 fire | acl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | compound |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burning | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 understood | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 understood | cc |
| 15 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 understood | ccomp |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 harm | det |
| 21 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Six | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Six | det |
| 24 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 do | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Six | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | a huge fire | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | a huge fire not said here | the iron room | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under room=Location | ||||
| 3 | understand | past | the King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | could | King | no harm | to the Six in this way | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
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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