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title: Then the fire began to burn and scald Medio Pollito, and he danced a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 60

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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:

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

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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.

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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:pg7277:6:60
# text = 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:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	scald	scald	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	Medio	Medio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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