The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 7

For a moment Makoma was helpless, but remembering the power of the flame-spirit which had entered into him, he breathed a fiery breath upon the giant's hair and cut himself free.

Who acts: Makoma · What happens: be, remember, enter, breathe, cut · To what, where: power, flame spirit, fiery breath, Makoma

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Makoma), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helpless	obl
4	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 helpless	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 helpless	cop
6	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 breathed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 breathed	cc
9	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 breathed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 power	det
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remembering	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 spirit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spirit	det
14	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spirit	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 flame	punct
16	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 power	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 entered	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 entered	aux
19	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 spirit	acl:relcl
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 entered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remembering	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 breathed	nsubj
24	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 helpless	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 breath	det
26	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 breath	amod
27	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 breathed	obj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 hair	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giant	det
30	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hair	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 giant	case
32	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 breathed	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cut	cc
34	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 breathed	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 cut	obj
36	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cut	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 helpless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Makoma		moment	helpless property	tree rules
2	remember	gerund	Makoma not said here	the power of the flame spirit			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent power=Theme
3	enter	past · perfect · passive		the flame spirit		into Makoma	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	breathe	past	Makoma	a fiery breath		upon the giant's hair	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
5	cut	past	Makoma not said here	Makoma		free property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product

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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