The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 69

It was the little fire-coloured hood that had burnt his tongue right down his throat.

Who acts: hood · What happens: be, burnt · To what, where: little coloured hood

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hood), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hood	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hood	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hood	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hood	amod
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coloured	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 fire	punct
7	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hood	amod
8	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 burnt	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burnt	aux
11	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hood	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tongue	nmod:poss
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burnt	obj
14	right	right	ADV	_	17 throat	advmod
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 throat	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 throat	nmod:poss
17	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burnt	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hood	the little coloured hood					tree rules
2	burnt	past · perfect · passive		the little coloured hood				down mouthful's throat	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 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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