The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 50

In the middle of the wood he came upon a meadow, where a fire was burning, and in the midst of the fire, surrounded by flames, was a lovely damsel, more beautiful than anything that Martin had ever seen, and when she saw him she called to him:

Who acts: Martin, fire · What happens: come, burn, surround, be, see, call · To what, where: middle, fire, lovely damsel, midst, Martin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 meadow	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 meadow	det
11	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burning	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 burning	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burning	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 burning	aux
17	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 meadow	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 damsel	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 damsel	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 midst	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 midst	det
22	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 damsel	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 midst	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surrounded	punct
27	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fire	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 flames	case
29	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 surrounded	obl:agent
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 midst	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 damsel	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 damsel	det
33	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 damsel	amod
34	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 beautiful	punct
36	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 beautiful	advmod
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 damsel	amod
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 anything	case
39	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 beautiful	obl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 seen	mark
41	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 seen	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 seen	aux
43	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 seen	advmod
44	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 anything	acl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 called	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 called	cc
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 saw	advmod
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 saw	nsubj
49	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 called	advcl
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 saw	obj
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 called	nsubj
52	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 called	obl
55	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Martin			the middle of the wood		upon a meadow	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
2	burn	past · progressive	a fire						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	surround	participle		the fire not said here					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		a lovely damsel		the midst of the fire			tree rules
5	see	past · perfect	Martin				ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	past	fire	Martin					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	call	past	fire		Martin				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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