The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 105

Along the road on each side were great fires, with men standing by them, who spoke pleasantly to Petru as he went by, and invited him to join them.

Who acts: men, great fires, Petru · What happens: be, stand, speak, go by, invite, join · To what, where: great fires, Petru, fires · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (men, great fires, Petru), 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	Along	along	ADP	_	3 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 road	det
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fires	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 road	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fires	cop
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fires	amod
9	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spoke	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 men	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 men	case
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fires	conj
13	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 men	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 standing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spoke	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 spoke	nsubj
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	18 spoke	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Petru	case
21	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 spoke	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 went	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoke	advcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	24 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 invited	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 invited	cc
28	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoke	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 invited	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 join	mark
31	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 invited	xcomp
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 join	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		great fires and men		along the road on each side	tree rules
2	stand	gerund	men not said here			by fires = fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=Location
3	speak speech: other	past	great fires and men		Petru	pleasantly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to petru=Co-Agent
4	go by	past	Petru				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	invite	past	great fires and men not said here	Petru			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	fires = fire			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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