The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 54
And all of a sudden he felt as if a hot iron were entering his soul, for it flashed through his mind that she had disobeyed his word.
Who acts: all, hot iron, iron, youngest, King · What happens: feel, enter, flash, disobey, mind, word · To what, where: soul, mind, word
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, hot iron, iron, youngest), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 felt | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sudden | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sudden | det |
| 5 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 all | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 entering | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 entering | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 iron | det |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 iron | amod |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entering | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entering | aux |
| 14 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 felt | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 soul | nmod:poss |
| 16 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entering | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flashed | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 flashed | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flashed | nsubj |
| 20 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mind | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flashed | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 disobeyed | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 disobeyed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 disobeyed | aux |
| 27 | disobeyed | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flashed | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 word | nmod:poss |
| 29 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 disobeyed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | all | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | enter | past · progressive | a hot iron | King's soul | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soul=Destination | ||||
| 3 | flash | past | iron | King's mind | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | ||||
| 4 | disobey | past | youngest = young | King's word | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mind | King | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | word | King | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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