The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 7

Before a candle which he has lit burns to the socket, I am to make a pair of boots.

What happens: lit, make · To what, where: burns, pair

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 candle	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 candle	det
3	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lit	obl
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lit	nsubj:pass
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lit	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lit	aux
7	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lit	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 socket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 socket	det
11	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 am	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 am	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lit	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 am	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pair	det
18	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 boots	case
20	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pair	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	present · perfect · passive		burns			before a candle	to the socket	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive		a pair of boots					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pair=Product

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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