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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 51

When the people, attracted by the noise, hurried to the spot, they saw the Snow-daughter melting into water and the Fire-son burn to a cinder.

Who acts: noise, people, Snow daughter · What happens: attract, hurry, see, melt · To what, where: people, noise, spot, Snow daughter, water

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 (noise, people, Snow daughter), 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

markdetnsubj:passpunctadvclcasedetoblpunctaclcasedetoblpunctnsubjdetcompoundpunctobjaclcaseoblccdetcompoundpunctcompoundconjcasedetnmodpunctrootWhenSCONJtheDETpeopleNOUN,PUNCTattractedVERBbyADPtheDETnoiseNOUN,PUNCThurriedVERBtoADPtheDETspotNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONsawVERBtheDETSnowPROPN-PUNCTdaughterNOUNmeltingVERBintoADPwaterNOUNandCCONJtheDETFirePROPN-PUNCTsonNOUNburnNOUNtoADPaDETcinderNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_5 attractedmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 peopledet
3peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur5 attractednsubj:pass
4,,PUNCT_5 attractedpunct
5attractedattractVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 sawadvcl
6bybyADP_8 noisecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 noisedet
8noisenoiseNOUNNumber=Sing5 attractedobl
9,,PUNCT_10 hurriedpunct
10hurriedhurryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 noiseacl
11totoADP_13 spotcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 spotdet
13spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing10 hurriedobl
14,,PUNCT_5 attractedpunct
15theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 sawnsubj
16sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 daughterdet
18SnowSnowPROPNNumber=Sing20 daughtercompound
19--PUNCT_18 Snowpunct
20daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing16 sawobj
21meltingmeltVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 daughteracl
22intointoADP_23 watercase
23waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing21 meltingobl
24andandCCONJ_29 burncc
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 burndet
26FireFirePROPNNumber=Sing29 burncompound
27--PUNCT_26 Firepunct
28sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing29 burncompound
29burnburnNOUNNumber=Sing23 waterconj
30totoADP_32 cindercase
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 cinderdet
32cindercinderNOUNNumber=Sing29 burnnmod
33..PUNCT_16 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1attractparticiple · passivethe noisethe peoplevn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2hurryparticiplethe noise not said herethe spotvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination
3seepastpeoplethe Snow daughtervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
4meltgerundthe Snow daughter not said herewater and the Fire son burn to a cindervn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into water=Product

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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