The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 7

But on the brink he paused a moment and called to Ciccu, ‘Tell me, Ciccu, how did you manage to prevent the fire burning you?’

Who acts: king, you, fire · What happens: pause, call, tell, manage, prevent, burn · To what, where: brink, moment, Ciccu, me, fire, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, you, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 paused	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 brink	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brink	det
4	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paused	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 paused	nsubj
6	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paused	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 moment	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Ciccu	case
12	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
15	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 paused	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Tell	iobj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Ciccu	punct
18	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Tell	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 manage	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 manage	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 manage	nsubj
23	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Tell	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 prevent	mark
25	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 manage	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fire	det
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prevent	obj
28	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 fire	acl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 burning	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 paused	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	pause	past	king			the brink	moment	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brink=Location
2	call	participle		a moment not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	king not said here	Ciccu	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	manage	past · do-support	you					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	prevent	to-infinitive	you not said here	the fire				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fire=Theme
6	burn	gerund	the fire not said here	you				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=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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