The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 16

As she said these words, a spark from the big wood fire flew into the woman’s lap, and she said with a laugh, ‘Now perhaps I shall give birth to a Fire-son!’

Who acts: woman, spark, I · What happens: say, fly, give · To what, where: words, lap, birth, Fire son · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, spark, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 said	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	advcl
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spark	det
8	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	nsubj
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fire	amod
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fire	compound
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spark	nmod
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	into	into	ADP	_	19 lap	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lap	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 woman	case
19	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 laugh	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 laugh	det
26	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
29	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 perhaps	advmod
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	33 give	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 give	aux
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
34	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 son	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 son	det
37	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 son	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Fire	punct
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman	this words			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	fly	past	a spark from the big wood fire			into the woman's lap result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lap=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	woman			with a laugh	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	shall	I	birth	a Fire son	perhaps property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=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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