Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 2

In a blizzard thousands of emperor penguins huddle together and slowly shuffle, so the ones on the cold edge take turns in the warm middle, like children crowding together at a cold bus stop.

Who acts: thousands, ones, children · What happens: huddle, shuffle, take, crowd together · To what, where: blizzard, turns, warm middle, cold bus stop

This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousands, ones, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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