The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 51

‘My father’s breath is burning my back,’ cried the girl, ‘put thy hand into the ear of the mare, and whatever thou findest there, throw it behind thee.’

Who acts: breath, thou · What happens: burn, cry, put, find, throw · To what, where: back, girl, hand, ear, thee

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 (breath, thou), 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	_	7 burning	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breath	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 father	case
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burning	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 burning	aux
7	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cried	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burning	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burning	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	conj
18	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 ear	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ear	det
22	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mare	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mare	det
25	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ear	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 whatever	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 whatever	cc
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 cried	parataxis
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 findest	nsubj
30	findest	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 whatever	acl:relcl
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 findest	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct
33	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 throw	obj
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 thee	case
36	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 throw	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	burn	present · progressive	My father's breath	my back		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		the girl		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
3	put	infinitive		thy hand	the ear of the mare	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
4	find	present	thou		there	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	throw	infinitive		back	thee	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind thou=Destination

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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