The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 8

But in a moment they all sprang up with a cry, and ran away screaming, for Barbaik had placed pans of hot coals under their feet, and all their poor little toes were burnt.

Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: spring up, run away, scream, place, burnt · To what, where: placed pans, feet, Barbaik, poor little toes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs), 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	_	7 sprang	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprang	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sprang	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 they	det
7	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 sprang	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 cry	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cry	det
11	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprang	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sprang	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
16	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 ran	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pans	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 placed	mark
19	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 placed	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 placed	aux
21	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 pans	amod
22	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 screaming	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 coals	case
24	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 coals	amod
25	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pans	nmod
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 screaming	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 burnt	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 burnt	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 toes	det:predet
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 toes	nmod:poss
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 toes	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 toes	amod
35	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 burnt	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 burnt	aux:pass
37	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sprang	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	dwarfs = dwarf			moment	with a cry	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run away	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scream speech: express	gerund	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	placed pans of hot coals	dwarfs's feet			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location
4	place	past · perfect · passive		Barbaik				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
5	burnt	past · passive		dwarfs's poor little toes				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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