The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 7

When he comes, fire will spurt out of both his nostrils, and then the tar will catch fire.

Who acts: Dapplegrim, fire, tar · What happens: come, spurt, catch · To what, where: nostrils, fire

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dapplegrim, fire, tar), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 comes	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spurt	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spurt	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 spurt	aux
7	spurt	spurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 nostrils	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 nostrils	case
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 nostrils	det
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nostrils	nmod:poss
12	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spurt	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 catch	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 catch	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tar	det
17	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 catch	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 catch	aux
19	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spurt	conj
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 catch	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spurt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	present	Dapplegrim				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spurt	future	fire		Dapplegrim's nostrils		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out nostril=Destination
3	catch	future	the tar	fire		then	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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 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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