The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 109

Then he came to the clearing among the trees, where the fire was burning and where the old woman was raking sticks and leaves into the flames.

Who acts: fox, fire, old woman · What happens: come, burn, rake, leave · To what, where: clearing, sticks, flames

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, fire, old woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 clearing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clearing	det
6	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 burning	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 burning	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burning	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 burning	aux
15	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 raking	cc
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 raking	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 raking	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 raking	aux
22	raking	rake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 burning	conj
23	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 raking	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 leaves	cc
25	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 flames	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flames	det
28	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leaves	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	fox		the clearing	then	among the trees	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to clearing=Initial_Location
2	burn	past · progressive	the fire					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rake	past · progressive	the old woman	sticks				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stick=Initial_Location
4	leave	present	fox not said here				into the flames result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into flame=Result

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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