The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 37

It was burning very low, and would soon be out.

Who acts: fire · What happens: burn, be

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 (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burning	aux
3	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 low	advmod
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burning	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 out	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 out	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 out	aux
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 out	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 out	cop
11	out	out	ADV	_	3 burning	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	fire					low property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	would						out, soon property	tree rules

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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