The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 74
So the ogre brought wood, and heaped it up till the flames roared up the chimney.
Who acts: ogre, flames · What happens: bring, heap up, roar up · To what, where: wood, chimney
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, flames), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ogre | det |
| 3 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heaped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heaped | cc |
| 8 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heaped | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 heaped | compound:prt |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 roared | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flames | det |
| 13 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 roared | nsubj |
| 14 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heaped | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 roared | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chimney | det |
| 17 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roared | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the ogre | wood | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | heap up | past | the ogre not said here | wood | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roar up | past | the flames | the chimney | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=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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