The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 60

Then the fire began to burn and scald Medio Pollito, and he danced and hopped from one side of the pot to the other, trying to get away from the heat, and crying out in pain:

Who acts: fire, Medio · What happens: begin, burn, scald, dance, hop, try · To what, where: Medio, one side, heat, pain

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, Medio), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 burn	mark
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scald	cc
8	scald	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 burn	conj
9	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 scald	obj
10	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Medio	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 danced	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 danced	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 danced	nsubj
14	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hopped	cc
16	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 danced	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 side	nummod
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hopped	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 pot	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pot	det
22	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 side	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 other	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hopped	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trying	punct
27	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 hopped	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 trying	xcomp
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 get	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 heat	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heat	det
33	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 crying	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 crying	cc
36	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	advcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 crying	compound:prt
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 pain	case
39	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 crying	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the fire			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	burn	to-infinitive	the fire not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scald	infinitive	the fire not said here	Medio				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent medio=Patient
4	dance	past	Medio					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hop	past	Medio not said here		one side of the pot		to the other	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to other=Destination
6	try	gerund	Medio not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	get away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Medio not said here		the heat		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from heat=Source
8	cry out speech: express	gerund	the fire not said here		pain			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pain=Location

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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