The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 60

‘My father’s breath is burning my back,’ cried the girl at midday.

Who acts: breath · What happens: burn, cry · To what, where: back, girl, midday · 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 (breath), 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	ccomp
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	_	7 burning	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	at	at	ADP	_	16 midday	case
16	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 girl	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	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		midday			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 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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