Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 17

It is so cold out of doors that it freezes one's breath even, and if the wind does not blow off this cloak, the thorns will tear it from my body."

Who acts: cloak, wind, thorns · What happens: be, freeze, not blow off, tear · To what, where: doors, breath, cloak

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloak, wind, thorns), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 doors	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 doors	case
7	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cold	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 freezes	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 freezes	nsubj
10	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	advcl
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 breath	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 one	case
13	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 freezes	obj
14	even	even	ADV	_	10 freezes	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blow	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 blow	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 blow	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blow	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 blow	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 blow	advmod
22	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cold	parataxis
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 blow	compound:prt
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 cloak	det
25	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blow	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tear	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thorns	det
28	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tear	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tear	aux
30	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 blow	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tear	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 body	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 body	nmod:poss
34	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tear	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	cloak		doors	cold property	tree rules
2	freeze	present	cloak	one's breath			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient breath=Result
3	not blow off a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	the wind	this cloak			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient
4	tear	future	the thorns	cloak		from my body	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from body=Co-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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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