The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 89

But the hero sprang behind a rock--just in time, for the ground upon which he had been standing was turned to molten glass, like an overbaked pot, by the heat of the flame-spirit's breath.

Who acts: hero, heat, breath · What happens: spring, stand, turn, overbak, heat · To what, where: rock, ground, molten glass

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, heat, breath), 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	_	4 sprang	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hero	det
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	nsubj
4	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 rock	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 time	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ground	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	obl
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 turned	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 standing	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 standing	aux
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 which	acl:relcl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	aux:pass
23	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ground	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 glass	case
25	molten	molten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 glass	amod
26	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pot	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 pot	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pot	det
30	overbaked	overbak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 pot	amod
31	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 heat	punct
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 heat	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 heat	det
35	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	42 breath	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 spirit	det
38	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spirit	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 flame	punct
40	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 breath	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 spirit	case
42	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heat	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the hero		a rock	time	for the ground	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind rock=Trajectory
2	stand	past · perfect · progressive	hero					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past · passive	the heat of the flame spirit's breath	the ground	molten glass		like a overbaked pot	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to glass=Trajectory
4	overbak	participle						tree rules
5	heat		the flame spirit's breath					nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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