The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 24
The Prince perceived a small room black with smoke, lit up feebly by a fire from which issued long blue flames.
Who acts: Prince, fire · What happens: perceive, lit up, issue · To what, where: small room, long blue flames
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | obj |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 smoke | case |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 black | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lit | punct |
| 11 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 room | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 lit | compound:prt |
| 13 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 11 lit | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lit | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 issued | nsubj |
| 19 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fire | acl:relcl |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flames | amod |
| 21 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flames | amod |
| 22 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 issued | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the Prince | a small room | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lit up | participle | a small room not said here | by a fire; feebly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | issue | past | a fire | long blue flames | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flame=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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