--- title: But she had not seen that where the fire burnt brightest two sparks… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But she had not seen that where the fire burnt brightest two sparks flew up, and, after floating in the air for a few moments, fell down into the great river that flows through the heart of the country. Who acts: heap, fire, brightest two sparks, few moments. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/) / 69 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 69 But she had not seen that where the fire burnt brightest two sparks flew up, and, after floating in the air for a few moments, fell down into the great river that flows through the heart of the country. **Who acts:** heap, fire, brightest two sparks, few moments, great river · **What happens:** not see, burnt, fly up, float, fall down, flow · **To what, where:** air, great river, heart This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heap, fire, brightest two sparks, few moments), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:35:69 # text = But she had not seen that where the fire burnt brightest two sparks flew up, and, after floating in the air for a few moments, fell down into the great river that flows through the heart of the country. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 burnt burnt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 sparks spark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 after after SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 floating float VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 moments moment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 down down ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 through through ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | heap | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **burnt** | past | the fire | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fly up** | past | brightest two sparks | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **float** | gerund | a few moments *not said here* | | | the air | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | | 5 | **fall down** | past | a few moments | | | | | into the great river *result*; down *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result | | 6 | **flow** | present | the great river | | | the heart of the country | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through heart=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/70/) - ↑ back to [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/)