The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 292

Let him be flayed alive, or burnt at a slow fire and his ashes scattered to the winds!

What happens: let, flay, burnt, scatter · To what, where: John, slow fire, ashes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flayed	compound
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 flayed	aux:pass
4	flayed	flay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flayed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 burnt	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 burnt	cc
8	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 flayed	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
11	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fire	amod
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burnt	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ashes	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ashes	nmod:poss
15	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fire	conj
16	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ashes	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 winds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 winds	det
19	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 scattered	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 flayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	John			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	flay	infinitive · passive			alive property	tree rules
3	burnt	participle		a slow fire and John's ashes		tree rules
4	scatter	participle	John's ashes not said here		to the winds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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