The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 61

Fire, fire! do not scorch me like this; you can’t think how it hurts.’

Who acts: Fire, you · What happens: not scorch, not think, hurt · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scorch	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fire	punct
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fire	conj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Fire	punct
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 scorch	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 scorch	advmod
7	scorch	scorch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 scorch	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 scorch	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 think	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 think	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 think	advmod
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scorch	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 hurts	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hurts	nsubj
18	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 think	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 scorch	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 scorch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not scorch	infinitive · do-support	Fire and fire	me	like this	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	not think speech: other	can	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	hurt	present	fire			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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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