The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 54
While I was sleeping a spark from the fire lighted on the hair, which was burnt up in a moment.
Who acts: I · What happens: sleep, light, burnt up · To what, where: spark, fire, hair
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 sleeping | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sleeping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeping | aux |
| 4 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spark | det |
| 6 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeping | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeping | obl |
| 10 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fire | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hair | det |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lighted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 burnt | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 burnt | aux:pass |
| 17 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hair | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 burnt | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burnt | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · progressive | I | a spark | the fire | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Theme | |||
| 2 | light | participle | the fire not said here | the hair | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | burnt up | past · passive | the hair | moment | tree rules |
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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