Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 49
Frost goes into the bath, and breathes with so icy a breath that the heat of the building turns at once to cold.
Who acts: Frost, heat, building · What happens: go, breathe, turn, heat · To what, where: bath
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frost, heat, building), 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 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 bath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bath | det |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 breathes | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 breathes | cc |
| 8 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 breath | case |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 icy | advmod |
| 11 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 breath | amod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 breath | det |
| 13 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breathes | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 turns | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heat | det |
| 16 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turns | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 building | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 building | det |
| 19 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heat | nmod |
| 20 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 breathes | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 turns | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 cold | case |
| 24 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 once | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Frost | the bath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bath=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | breathe | present | Frost not said here | with a icy breath | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | the heat of the building | once property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | heat | the building | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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