More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 60

But the fire was getting low, and the light dim, and presently the little boy stirred the coals with a stick to make them blaze; when out jumped a red-hot cinder, and where should it fall, but on the fairy child's tiny foot.

Who acts: fire, little boy, coals, cinder · What happens: get, stir, make, blaze, jump, fall · To what, where: coals, hot cinder, tiny foot

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, little boy, coals, cinder), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 getting	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dim	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dim	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 light	det
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dim	obl:unmarked
11	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stirred	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stirred	cc
14	presently	presently	ADV	_	18 stirred	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boy	amod
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stirred	nsubj
18	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dim	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coals	det
20	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stirred	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 stick	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stick	det
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coals	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stirred	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	blaze	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	xcomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 jumped	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 jumped	advmod
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 when	compound:prt
31	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dim	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cinder	det
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hot	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 red	punct
35	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cinder	amod
36	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 jumped	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fall	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fall	cc
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 fall	advmod
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 fall	aux
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 fall	nsubj
42	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 jumped	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 foot	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 foot	cc
45	on	on	ADP	_	51 foot	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 child	det
47	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 child	amod
48	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 foot	nmod:poss
49	's	's	PART	_	48 child	case
50	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 foot	amod
51	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fall	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	the fire			low property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stir	past	the little boy	the coals		with a stick; presently property	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent coal=Patient with stick=Co-Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here	coals = coal			tree rules
4	blaze	infinitive	coals = coal not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	jump	past	the fire not said here	a hot cinder			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cinder=Trajectory
6	fall	should	cinder		the fairy child's tiny foot		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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