The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 96

It was so cold, so cold; the great icebergs glittered strangely, and the huge whales now lived under the ice, for they could not make a hole through with their awkward heads.

Who acts: opening, huge whales, whales · What happens: be, glitter, live, not make · To what, where: great icebergs, ice, hole

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opening, huge whales, whales), 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	4 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cold	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 icebergs	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 icebergs	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 icebergs	amod
11	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cold	obl
12	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 icebergs	acl
13	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	12 glittered	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lived	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 whales	det
17	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 whales	amod
18	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lived	nsubj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lived	advmod
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	parataxis
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 ice	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ice	det
23	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 make	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 make	advmod
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lived	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hole	det
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	through	through	ADV	_	29 make	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 heads	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 heads	nmod:poss
35	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 heads	amod
36	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	opening				the great icebergs obl; cold property	tree rules
2	be		opening not said here					tree rules
3	glitter	participle		the great icebergs not said here			strangely property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	past	the huge whales		the ice	now		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ice=Location
5	not make	could	whales = whale	a hole			with whales's awkward heads; through property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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