The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 10
And in a moment the fire caught him, and he was burned up.
Who acts: fire · What happens: catch, burn up · To what, where: Ciccu
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire), 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 caught | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 burned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 burned | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 burned | aux:pass |
| 13 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 caught | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 burned | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the fire | Ciccu | moment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn up | past · passive | Ciccu | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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 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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