The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 124
With that he dipped his fingers into the fire, and they then gave light without being burned in the least.
Who acts: man, fingers · What happens: dip, give, burn · To what, where: fingers, fire, light, least
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, fingers), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dipped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dipped | nsubj |
| 4 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dipped | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dipped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 gave | advmod |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dipped | conj |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 burned | mark |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 burned | aux:pass |
| 18 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gave | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 least | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 least | det |
| 21 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 burned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past | man | man's fingers | the fire | with that | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme into fire=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | past | fingers = finger | light | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | |||
| 3 | burn | gerund · passive | fingers = finger not said here | the least | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: in least=Location |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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