The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 140

It began to get colder, and Niels began to walk about a little to keep himself warm.

Who acts: sparrow, Niels · What happens: begin, get, walk, keep · To what, where: Rasmus

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, Niels), 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	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
8	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 walk	mark
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 little	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walk	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 walk	advcl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 keep	obj
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keep	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	sparrow			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	sparrow not said here		cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past	Niels			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	walk	to-infinitive	Niels not said here		about a little	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about little=Trajectory
5	keep	to-infinitive	Niels not said here	Rasmus	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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