Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 11

There was a fire in the chimney, and it had now crumbled into great coals and embers, which lay glowing on the hearth, with a blaze flickering up now and then, and flinging a warm and ruddy light upon the walls.

Who acts: fire, great coals, blaze · What happens: be, crumble, lie, glow, flicker up, fling · To what, where: chimney, fire, great coals, hearth, warm light, walls

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, great coals, blaze), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chimney	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chimney	det
7	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crumbled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 crumbled	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 crumbled	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crumbled	aux
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 crumbled	advmod
13	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 coals	case
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coals	amod
16	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crumbled	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 embers	cc
18	embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 coals	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 coals	acl:relcl
22	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 lay	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 hearth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hearth	det
25	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glowing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 blaze	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 blaze	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 blaze	det
29	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crumbled	obl
30	flickering	flicker	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 blaze	acl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 flickering	compound:prt
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 flickering	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 flinging	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 flinging	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 flinging	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 flinging	cc
37	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 crumbled	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 light	det
39	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 light	amod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ruddy	cc
41	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 warm	conj
42	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flinging	obj
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 walls	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 walls	det
45	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 flinging	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fire		the chimney; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chimney=Location
2	crumble	past · perfect · passive		fire		now	into great coals and embers result; with a blaze	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient into coal=Result with blaze=Instrument
3	lie	past	great coals and embers					tree rules
4	glow	gerund	great coals and embers not said here		the hearth			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=Location
5	flicker up	gerund	a blaze not said here			now		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fling	gerund		a warm light	the walls	then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme upon wall=Destination

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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