The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 12
Very soon they reached a wood, and saw the friendly glow of a fire.
Who acts: drifts, fire · What happens: reach, see, glow · To what, where: wood, friendly glow
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drifts, fire), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glow | det |
| 11 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 glow | amod |
| 12 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glow | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | drifts = drift | a wood | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | drifts = drift not said here | the friendly glow of a fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | glow | a fire | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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