The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 75

To make matters worse, an icy wind began to blow, and the poor fishes were chilled right through their bodies.

Who acts: icy wind · What happens: make, begin, blow, chill · To what, where: matters, poor fishes, bodies

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (icy wind), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wind	det
7	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wind	amod
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 blow	mark
11	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 chilled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 chilled	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fishes	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fishes	amod
16	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chilled	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 chilled	aux:pass
18	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 began	conj
19	right	right	ADV	_	22 bodies	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 bodies	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bodies	nmod:poss
22	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chilled	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		matters		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product
2	begin	past	a icy wind				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	blow	to-infinitive	a icy wind not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	chill	past · passive		the poor fishes	fishes's bodies		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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