The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 97
A cold shiver shook Andras, and this time he wished himself the feet of a reindeer calf.
Who acts: cold shiver, shiver · What happens: shake, wish · To what, where: Andras, shiver
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold shiver, shiver), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shiver | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shiver | amod |
| 3 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wished | cc |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wished | nsubj |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 wished | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 feet | det |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wished | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 calf | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 calf | det |
| 17 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calf | compound |
| 18 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | a cold shiver | Andras | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent andras=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | shiver | shiver | time | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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