The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 69

But she had not seen that where the fire burnt brightest two sparks flew up, and, after floating in the air for a few moments, fell down into the great river that flows through the heart of the country.

Who acts: heap, fire, brightest two sparks, few moments, great river · What happens: not see, burnt, fly up, float, fall down, flow · To what, where: air, great river, heart

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: who acts (heap, fire, brightest two sparks, few moments), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 seen	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 burnt	mark
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 burnt	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burnt	nsubj
10	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	advcl
11	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 sparks	amod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sparks	nummod
13	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 burnt	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 flew	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 floating	mark
20	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 fell	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 floating	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 moments	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 moments	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 moments	amod
27	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fell	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 moments	punct
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 burnt	conj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 fell	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 river	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 river	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 river	amod
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 flows	nsubj
36	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 river	acl:relcl
37	through	through	ADP	_	39 heart	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 heart	det
39	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flows	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 country	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 country	det
42	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 heart	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	heap			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	burnt	past	the fire			tree rules
3	fly up	past	brightest two sparks			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	float	gerund	a few moments not said here	the air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory
5	fall down	past	a few moments		into the great river result; down property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result
6	flow	present	the great river	the heart of the country		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through heart=Location

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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