The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 75

“Oh! yes,” answered number two: “If someone seizes the shirt with gloved hands and throws it into the fire, and lets it burn, then the young King is saved.

Who acts: number, someone, shirt · What happens: answer, seize, glove, throw, let, burn · To what, where: shirt, fire, young King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, someone, shirt), 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 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 answered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 number	nummod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 seizes	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 seizes	punct
12	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 seizes	mark
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 seizes	nsubj
14	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shirt	det
16	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seizes	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 hands	case
18	gloved	glove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hands	amod
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shirt	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 throws	cc
21	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 seizes	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 throws	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 throws	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lets	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lets	cc
28	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 seizes	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lets	obj
30	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 lets	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 saved	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 saved	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 King	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 King	amod
35	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 saved	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 saved	aux:pass
37	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 lets	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	number				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seize a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	someone	the shirt		with gloved hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme
3	glove in a quote	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	throw in a quote	present	someone not said here	shirt		into the fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result
5	let in a quote	present		shirt			tree rules
6	burn in a quote	infinitive	shirt not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	save in a quote	present · passive		the young King	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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