The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 78
“We shall be frozen to death or buried in the snow.”
What happens: freeze, bury · To what, where: We, snow
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 frozen | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frozen | aux:pass |
| 5 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frozen | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 buried | cc |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 frozen | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 snow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snow | det |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze in a quote | shall · passive | We | to death | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | bury in a quote | participle | the snow | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in snow=Destination |
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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