The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 27
Flames of fire rushed forth, and such clouds of steam followed that the stag had to avert its eyes.
Who acts: Flames, such clouds, stag, fire · What happens: rush, follow, have, avert, flame, cloud · To what, where: eyes, steam
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flames, such clouds, stag, 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 | Flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 fire | case |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flames | nmod |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 rushed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 followed | cc |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 clouds | amod |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 steam | case |
| 11 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clouds | nmod |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stag | det |
| 15 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 followed | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 avert | mark |
| 18 | avert | avert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | xcomp |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 avert | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle | Flames of fire | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | such clouds of steam | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the stag | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | avert | to-infinitive | the stag not said here | stag's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | flame | fire | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | cloud | steam | nom cloud «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 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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