The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 68

When he was about to lie down in bed he would creep out of his hedgehog skin, and leave it lying at the bedside; then the men must rush in, throw the skin into the fire, and stand by till it was entirely burnt up.

Who acts: harm, skin, men · What happens: be, lie down, creep out, leave, lie, rush in · To what, where: bed, hedgehog skin, skin, bedside, fire

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, skin, men), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 about	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creep	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lie	mark
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 lie	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 creep	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 creep	aux
12	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	17 skin	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 skin	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 skin	nmod:poss
16	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skin	compound
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 creep	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 leave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 leave	cc
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 creep	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 leave	obj
22	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 leave	xcomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 bedside	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bedside	det
25	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lying	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 rush	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 rush	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 men	det
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 rush	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 rush	aux
31	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 creep	conj
32	in	in	ADV	_	31 rush	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 throw	punct
34	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 rush	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 skin	det
36	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 throw	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 fire	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fire	det
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 throw	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stand	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 stand	cc
42	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 rush	conj
43	by	by	ADP	_	42 stand	obl
44	till	till	SCONJ	_	48 burnt	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 burnt	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 burnt	aux:pass
47	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	48 burnt	advmod
48	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 stand	advcl
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 burnt	compound:prt
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 creep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	harm				about property	tree rules
2	lie down	to-infinitive	harm not said here		bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
3	creep out	would	harm	harm's hedgehog skin				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location skin=Theme
4	leave	infinitive	harm not said here	skin				tree rules
5	lie	gerund	skin not said here		the bedside			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bedside=Location
6	rush in	must	the men			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	throw	infinitive	the men not said here	the skin			into the fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer skin=Theme into fire=Result
8	stand by	infinitive	the men not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	burnt up	past · passive		fire			entirely property	tree rules

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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