The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 63

And when the maiden appeared, clad in her white smock, flames of fire curled about her, and the Romans brought some torches, and some straw, and some shavings, and fires were kindled in Rome again.

Who acts: maiden, Romans, fire · What happens: appear, clad, curl, bring, kindle, flame · To what, where: straw, white smock, fire, torches, fires, Rome

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, Romans, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 clad	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 appeared	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	nsubj
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clad	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 appeared	punct
7	clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 smock	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 smock	nmod:poss
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 smock	amod
11	smock	smock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clad	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flames	punct
13	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 smock	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 fire	case
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flames	nmod
16	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 fire	acl
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 curled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 brought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 brought	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Romans	det
22	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 brought	nsubj
23	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clad	conj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 torches	det
25	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 brought	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 straw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 straw	cc
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 straw	det
29	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clad	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shavings	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shavings	cc
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 shavings	det
33	shavings	shaving	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 straw	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kindled	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 kindled	cc
36	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 kindled	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 kindled	aux:pass
38	kindled	kindle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 clad	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 Rome	case
40	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 kindled	obl
41	again	again	ADV	_	38 kindled	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 clad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the maiden					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	clad	past		some straw and some shavings	maiden's white smock and flames of fire			tree rules
3	curl	participle		fire not said here			about maiden	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
4	bring	past	the Romans	some torches				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent torch=Theme
5	kindle	past · passive		fires	Rome	again		vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	flame		fire					nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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