The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 10

You can hear him snoring a mile off, and then you must go into his room and pull off the iron mantle that covers him, and put it on the fire till it is almost red hot.

Who acts: You, Stalo, iron mantle, mantle · What happens: hear, snore off, go, pull off, cover, put · To what, where: Stalo, mile, room, iron mantle, mantle, fire

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Stalo, iron mantle, mantle), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obj
5	snoring	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hear	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mile	det
7	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snoring	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	5 snoring	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 go	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 room	nmod:poss
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pull	cc
19	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 pull	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mantle	det
22	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mantle	amod
23	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pull	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 covers	nsubj
25	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mantle	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 covers	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 put	cc
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 fire	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fire	det
33	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 hot	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hot	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 hot	cop
37	almost	almost	ADV	_	39 hot	advmod
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 hot	amod
39	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 put	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	can	You	Stalo					tree rules
2	snore off	gerund	Stalo not said here	a mile					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme
3	go	must	you			Stalo's room	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
4	pull off	present	you not said here	the iron mantle					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Eventuality
5	cover	present	the iron mantle		Stalo				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
6	put	infinitive	You not said here	mantle		the fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination
7	is	present	mantle					almost, hot property	tree rules

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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