The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 94

As he walked he saw the light of a fire, and making his way to it he found an old woman raking sticks and dried leaves together, and burning them in a glade of the wood.

Who acts: Darkness, old woman · What happens: walk, see, make, find, rake, dry · To what, where: light, way, old woman, sticks, glade, fire

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 (Darkness, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 walked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
13	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 found	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 making	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 making	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
23	raking	rake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 woman	acl
24	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 raking	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 leaves	cc
26	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 leaves	amod
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sticks	conj
28	together	together	ADV	_	23 raking	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 burning	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 burning	cc
31	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 found	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 burning	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 glade	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 glade	det
35	glade	glade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burning	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 wood	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wood	det
38	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 glade	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Darkness					tree rules
2	see	past	Darkness	the light of a fire				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	make	gerund	Darkness not said here	Darkness's way	way			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
4	find	past	Darkness	a old woman				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
5	rake	gerund	a old woman not said here	sticks and dried leaves			together property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stick=Initial_Location
6	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	burn	gerund	Darkness not said here	sticks = stick		a glade of the wood		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	light			a fire				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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