The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 10
If they brought the child anywhere near the fire, it screamed loudly till they put it back into some cool place.
Who acts: icicles, fire · What happens: bring, scream, put back · To what, where: child, fire, cool place
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (icicles, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 brought | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 screamed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 brought | advmod |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 screamed | nsubj |
| 12 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 12 screamed | advmod |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 screamed | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 place | det |
| 21 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring a condition, not said to happen | past | icicles = icicle | the child | the fire | anywhere property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | ||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | fire | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put back | past | icicles = icicle | fire | some cool place | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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