The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 92

You must heat an iron shovel red hot, and hold it out to him instead of your hand.’

Who acts: You · What happens: heat, hold out · To what, where: iron shovel, shovel, instant

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 heat	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 heat	aux
3	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shovel	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shovel	compound
6	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heat	obj
7	red	red	ADV	_	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shovel	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hold	cc
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heat	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 hold	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	obl
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	19 hand	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heat	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 heat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	must	You	a iron shovel					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shovel=Patient
2	hold out	infinitive	You not said here	shovel	instant			instead your hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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