The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 26

‘Make haste now with the nest,’ she cried, ‘for my father’s breath is burning my back,’ and down he scrambled as fast as he could, but the girl’s little finger had caught in a branch at the top, and she was obliged to leave it there.

Who acts: you, magpie, sun · What happens: make, cry, burn, scramble, catch, oblige · To what, where: haste, back, little finger, branch, magpie, finger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magpie, sun), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct
2	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Make	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Make	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 nest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nest	det
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Make	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Make	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burning	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 burning	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 breath	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breath	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 father	case
18	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 burning	obl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 burning	aux
20	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	ccomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 back	nmod:poss
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 burning	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burning	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 burning	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 scrambled	cc
26	down	down	ADV	_	28 scrambled	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 scrambled	nsubj
28	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 fast	advmod
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 scrambled	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 could	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 could	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fast	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 caught	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 caught	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 girl	det
37	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 finger	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 girl	case
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 finger	amod
40	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 caught	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 caught	aux
42	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cried	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 branch	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 branch	det
45	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 caught	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 top	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 top	det
48	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 caught	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 obliged	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 obliged	cc
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 obliged	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 obliged	aux:pass
53	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cried	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 leave	mark
55	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 obliged	xcomp
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 leave	obj
57	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 leave	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	haste		now	with the nest	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product
2	cry speech: express	past	magpie					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	burn	present · progressive		my back			for my father's breath	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
4	scramble	past	sun				down, fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	past · perfect · passive		the girl's little finger	a branch		at the top	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at top=Asset
6	oblige	past · passive		magpie				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	leave	to-infinitive		finger	there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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