The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 33

The Fire-son built himself a hut where he always kept up a huge fire, while his sister with very few clothes on stayed outside night and day.

Who acts: Fire son, son, sister · What happens: build, keep up, stay · To what, where: son, huge fire

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 (Fire son, son, sister), 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	4 son	det
2	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Fire	punct
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 built	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 kept	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kept	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 kept	advmod
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hut	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 kept	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fire	det
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fire	amod
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stayed	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 stayed	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sister	nmod:poss
20	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stayed	nsubj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 clothes	case
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 few	advmod
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 clothes	amod
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 sister	nmod
25	on	on	ADV	_	26 stayed	advmod
26	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	conj
27	outside	outside	ADV	_	26 stayed	advmod
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stayed	obl:unmarked
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 day	cc
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 night	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the Fire son	son			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary hut=Product
2	keep up	past	son	a huge fire		always property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	stay	past	son's sister with few clothes		night	outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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