The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 66
This was done and the aspen beds were burnt in a large fire, till only a little heap of ashes was left.
What happens: do, burnt, leave · To what, where: This, aspen beds, large fire, little heap
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 burnt | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beds | det |
| 6 | aspen | aspen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beds | compound |
| 7 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 burnt | aux:pass |
| 9 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fire | amod |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burnt | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 left | mark |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 heap | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 heap | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heap | amod |
| 19 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ashes | case |
| 21 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heap | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | aux:pass |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | burnt | past · passive | the aspen beds | a large fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | a little heap of ashes | vn keep-15.2 «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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