Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 22

[16] They frowned when the good father spurned the flesh of the dog in the kettle, And laughed when his fingers were burned in the hot, boiling pot of the giant. "

Who acts: braves, good father · What happens: frown, spurn, laugh, burn, boil · To what, where: 16, flesh, kettle, fingers, hot boiling pot

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (braves, good father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 16	punct
2	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 frowned	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 16	punct
4	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frowned	nsubj
5	frowned	frown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 spurned	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 father	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 father	amod
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spurned	nsubj
10	spurned	spurn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frowned	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flesh	det
12	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spurned	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 dog	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flesh	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 kettle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kettle	det
18	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spurned	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laughed	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 laughed	cc
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frowned	conj
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 burned	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fingers	nmod:poss
24	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 burned	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 burned	aux:pass
26	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 laughed	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	32 pot	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pot	det
29	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pot	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hot	punct
31	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 pot	amod
32	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burned	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 giant	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 giant	det
35	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pot	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frowned	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 frowned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	frown	past	braves = brave	16		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spurn	past	the good father	the flesh of the dog	the kettle	tree rules
3	laugh	past	braves = brave not said here			tree rules
4	burn	past · passive		Father's fingers	the hot boiling pot of the giant	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	boil	gerund				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 22