The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 15

In front of the fire three men were sitting clothed in white, just as if it was summer, and for about thirty feet all round winter had been banished.

Who acts: fire · What happens: clothe, be, banish · To what, where: three men, front, round winter

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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	2 front	case
2	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clothed	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 front	nmod
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 men	nummod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clothed	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clothed	aux:pass
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 clothed	aux:pass
10	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 white	case
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clothed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 summer	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	19 summer	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 summer	case
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 as	fixed
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 summer	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 summer	cop
19	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clothed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 banished	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 banished	cc
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 feet	case
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 thirty	advmod
24	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 feet	nummod
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 banished	obl
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 round	advmod
27	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 winter	amod
28	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 banished	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 banished	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 banished	aux:pass
31	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 clothed	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 clothed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clothe	past · passive		three men	front of the fire	in white	vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	fire			as summer	tree rules
3	banish	past · perfect · passive		round winter		for thirty feet	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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