The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 70

The men rushed in, quickly seized the skin and threw it on the fire, and directly it was all burnt Jack was released from his enchantment and lay in his bed a man from head to foot, but quite black as though he had been severely scorched.

Who acts: men, fire, Jack · What happens: rush in, seize, throw, be, release, lie · To what, where: skin, fire, burnt Jack, enchantment, man, bed

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 (men, fire, Jack), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rushed	nsubj
3	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 rushed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 seized	advmod
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 threw	cc
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 threw	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 released	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 released	cc
18	directly	directly	ADV	_	22 burnt	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 burnt	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burnt	cop
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 burnt	advmod
22	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Jack	amod
23	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 released	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 released	aux:pass
25	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rushed	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 enchantment	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 enchantment	nmod:poss
28	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 released	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lay	cc
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 released	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 bed	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bed	nmod:poss
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 head	case
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 man	nmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 foot	case
39	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 black	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 black	cc
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	43 black	advmod
43	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rushed	parataxis
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 scorched	mark
45	though	though	SCONJ	_	50 scorched	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 scorched	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 scorched	aux
48	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 scorched	aux:pass
49	severely	severely	ADV	_	50 scorched	advmod
50	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 black	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush in	past	the men				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past		the skin		quickly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
3	throw	past		skin	the fire		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination
4	is	past	fire			all, burnt, directly property	tree rules
5	release	past · passive		burnt Jack	Jack's enchantment		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
6	lie	past		a man	Jack's bed	from head; to foot	tree rules
7	scorch	past · perfect · passive		Jack		severely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
8	enchant		Jack				nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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