Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 55

But about midnight the wind blew so sharp, that in spite of the fire he could not keep himself warm.

Who acts: wind · What happens: blow, not keep, spite · To what, where: wind, spite, fire

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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	_	6 blew	cc
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 midnight	advmod
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	nsubj
6	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 sharp	advmod
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blew	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 keep	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 keep	mark
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 spite	case
12	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spite	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keep	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 keep	advmod
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 blew	advcl
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 keep	obj
21	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 keep	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind			midnight	sharp property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	not keep	could	wind	wind	spite of the fire		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in spite=Location
3	spite			the fire				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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