The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 36

A little later he came to a fire that had been left by some gipsies in a wood.

Who acts: King, gipsies · What happens: come, leave · To what, where: fire, wood

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, gipsies), 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	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 came	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 left	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 left	aux:pass
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fire	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 gipsies	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 gipsies	det
15	gipsies	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 left	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	King			a fire		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial_Location
2	leave	past · perfect · passive	some gipsies	a fire		a wood			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in wood=Location

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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