The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 89

Indeed, it would be truer to say that he never was warm at all; and at last, after one bitter night, his legs moved so slowly that the ice crept closer and closer, and when the morning light broke he was caught fast, as in a trap; and soon his senses went from him.

Who acts: it, neck, legs, ice, morning light, senses · What happens: be, say, not be, move, creep, break · To what, where: all, neck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, neck, legs, ice), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 truer	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 truer	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 truer	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 truer	cop
6	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 truer	csubj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 warm	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warm	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 warm	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 warm	cop
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 warm	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 last	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 truer	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 night	punct
21	after	after	ADP	_	24 night	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 night	nummod
23	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 night	amod
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 last	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 moved	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 legs	nmod:poss
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 moved	nsubj
28	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 truer	parataxis
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 slowly	advmod
30	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	28 moved	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 crept	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ice	det
33	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crept	nsubj
34	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 moved	advcl
35	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 crept	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 closer	cc
37	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 closer	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 broke	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 broke	cc
40	when	when	SCONJ	_	44 broke	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 light	det
42	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 light	compound
43	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 broke	nsubj
44	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 crept	conj
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 caught	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 caught	aux:pass
47	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 broke	parataxis
48	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 caught	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 trap	punct
50	as	as	ADP	_	53 trap	case
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 trap	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 trap	det
53	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 caught	parataxis
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 went	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 went	cc
56	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	59 went	advmod
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 senses	nmod:poss
58	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 went	nsubj
59	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 moved	conj
60	from	from	ADP	_	61 him	case
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 went	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 truer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	it			indeed, true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	neck		all	warm property	tree rules
4	move	past	neck's legs			slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	creep	past	the ice			close property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	break	past	the morning light				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	catch	past · passive		neck		fast property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	go	past	neck's senses			from neck; soon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location

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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