The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 27
But the first touch burnt him so badly that he let it alone, and went with nothing, except a stick in his hand, through the back door.
Who acts: first touch, Stalo · What happens: burnt, let, go · To what, where: Stalo, touch, back door
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 (first touch, Stalo), 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 burnt | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 touch | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 touch | amod |
| 4 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burnt | nsubj |
| 5 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 burnt | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 badly | advmod |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 burnt | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 let | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | nsubj |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burnt | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 let | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burnt | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 nothing | case |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stick | punct |
| 20 | except | except | ADP | _ | 22 stick | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stick | det |
| 22 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stick | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 door | punct |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 door | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 29 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | compound |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | past | the first touch | Stalo | badly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let | past | Stalo | touch | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | the first touch not said here | the back door | with nothing; except a stick in Stalo's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_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: «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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