The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 67

‘My father’s breath is burning my back,’ cried the girl; ‘look in the mare’s ear, king’s son, or we are lost,’ and he looked, and found a tiny bladder full of water, which he threw behind him, and it became a great lock.

Who acts: breath, water, bladder · What happens: burn, cry, look, lose, find, throw · To what, where: back, girl, we, tiny bladder, great lock · 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, water, bladder), 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	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 ear	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mare	det
20	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ear	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 mare	case
22	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 son	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 king	case
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ear	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lost	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 lost	cc
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lost	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 lost	aux:pass
31	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 look	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lost	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 lost	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 looked	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 looked	nsubj
36	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 found	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 found	cc
39	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bladder	det
41	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bladder	amod
42	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 found	obj
43	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bladder	amod
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 water	case
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 full	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 threw	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 threw	nsubj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 threw	nsubj
49	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 water	acl:relcl
50	behind	behind	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 threw	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 became	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 became	cc
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 became	nsubj
55	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 found	conj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 lock	det
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 lock	amod
58	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 became	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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		tree rules
3	look	infinitive			in the mare's ear and king's son	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ear=Theme
4	lose	present · passive		we		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	look	past	breath			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	find	past		a tiny bladder		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Topic
7	throw	past	water		behind son	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent behind he=Destination
8	become	past	bladder	a great lock		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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