More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 79

First they turned him in Janet's arms like frozen ice, then into a huge flame of roaring fire.

Who acts: spells, huge flame · What happens: turn, freeze, roar · To what, where: Tamlane, fire

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spells, huge flame), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 turned	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 arms	case
6	Janet	Janet	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 arms	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Janet	case
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 ice	case
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ice	amod
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arms	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flame	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 flame	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 flame	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 flame	det
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flame	amod
17	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 roaring	mark
19	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 flame	acl
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roaring	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	spells = spell	Tamlane	into a huge flame; in Janet's arms like frozen ice; first property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient in arm=Topic into flame=Recipient
2	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	roar	gerund	a huge flame not said here	fire		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=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: «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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