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title: The men rushed in, quickly seized the skin and threw it on the fire,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Boo
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 70

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:48:70
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
49	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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