The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 49

The best and warmest place round the camp fire was always given to the children, but even so the bitter frost would cause them to shiver.

Who acts: bitter frost, children · What happens: give, cause, shiver · To what, where: best warmest place, children

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bitter frost, children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 place	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 warmest	cc
4	warmest	warm	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
6	round	round	ADP	_	9 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fire	compound
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux:pass
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 given	advmod
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 given	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cause	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 cause	cc
18	even	even	ADV	_	24 cause	advmod
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	24 cause	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 frost	det
21	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 frost	amod
22	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cause	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cause	aux
24	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 given	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cause	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 shiver	mark
27	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cause	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		the best warmest place round the camp fire	the children	always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient
2	cause	would	the bitter frost	children = child			tree rules
3	shiver	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=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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