Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 30
Then Lucifer took the biggest brand that was on the fire, and blew it so strongly that the sparks flew about abundantly. "
Who acts: Lucifer, biggest brand, sparks · What happens: take, be, blow, fly · To what, where: biggest brand, fire, brand
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lucifer, biggest brand, sparks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Lucifer | Lucifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brand | det |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 brand | amod |
| 6 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fire | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fire | cop |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brand | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blew | cc |
| 14 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 blew | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 strongly | advmod |
| 17 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 14 blew | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 flew | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sparks | det |
| 20 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flew | nsubj |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 blew | advcl |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 abundantly | advmod |
| 23 | abundantly | abundantly | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Lucifer | the biggest brand | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the biggest brand | the fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blow | past | Lucifer not said here | brand | strongly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | fly | past | the sparks | abundantly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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