The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 17

A cheerful fire was burning in the kitchen, before which a roast was being basted by unseen hands, and all kinds of vegetables and other dainty dishes were being prepared in like manner.

Who acts: cheerful fire, unseen hands · What happens: burn, baste, prepare · To what, where: kitchen, roast, kinds, manner

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheerful fire, unseen hands), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
2	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fire	amod
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burning	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	aux
5	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burning	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 basted	punct
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 basted	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 roast	det
13	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 basted	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 basted	aux:pass
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 basted	aux:pass
16	basted	baste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 burning	parataxis
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 hands	case
18	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hands	amod
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 basted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 prepared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 prepared	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 kinds	det
23	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 prepared	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 vegetables	case
25	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 kinds	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dishes	cc
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dishes	amod
28	dainty	dainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dishes	compound
29	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 vegetables	conj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 prepared	aux:pass
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 prepared	aux:pass
32	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 basted	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 manner	case
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 manner	case
35	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 prepared	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 burning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	a cheerful fire		the kitchen	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location
2	baste	past · passive	unseen hands	a roast		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme before which=Destination
3	prepare	past · passive		all kinds of vegetables and other dainty dishes	manner	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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