The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 36
Place the pan on the floor of the stall, and the tongs on the fire, and blow with all your might, till the coals burn brightly.
Who acts: you, tongs, coals · What happens: place, blow, burn · To what, where: pan, floor
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tongs, coals), 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 | Place | place | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pan | det |
| 3 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Place | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Place | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stall | det |
| 9 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 floor | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blow | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blow | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tongs | det |
| 13 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blow | nsubj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tongs | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blow | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blow | cc |
| 19 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Place | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 23 might | mark |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 might | det:predet |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 might | nmod:poss |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 blow | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 burn | punct |
| 25 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 burn | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 coals | det |
| 27 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 burn | nsubj |
| 28 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 blow | advcl |
| 29 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 28 burn | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | imperative | you not said here | the pan | the floor of the stall | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme on floor=Destination | |||
| 2 | blow | infinitive | the tongs on the fire | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | burn | present | the coals | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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