Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 82

But as for Jason himself (thanks to Medea's enchanted ointment), the white flame curled around his body, without injuring him a jot more than if he had been made of asbestos.

What happens: enchant, curl, injure, make · To what, where: white flame, body, Jason

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 Jason	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 Jason	case
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 Jason	case
4	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 Jason	nmod
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 thanks	punct
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Jason	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 ointment	case
9	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ointment	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Medea	case
11	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ointment	amod
12	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thanks	nmod
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 thanks	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flame	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flame	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flame	amod
17	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Jason	appos
18	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 flame	acl
19	around	around	ADP	_	21 body	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 body	nmod:poss
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 curled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 injuring	punct
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 injuring	mark
24	injuring	injure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 curled	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 injuring	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 jot	det
27	jot	jot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 more	nsubj
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 injuring	obj
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 made	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 made	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 made	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 made	aux:pass
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 more	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 asbestos	case
36	asbestos	asbestos	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Jason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	curl	participle	the white flame not said here	Jason's body		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around body=Destination
3	injure	gerund	Jason			tree rules
4	make a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	Jason		of asbestos	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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