The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 54
But at midnight it got so chill that in spite of the fire he couldn’t keep warm.
Who acts: tree, man · What happens: get, not keep, spite · To what, where: spite, fire
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 chill | advmod |
| 7 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spite | case |
| 10 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spite | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 keep | advmod |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 chill | advcl |
| 18 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | tree | midnight | chill property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not keep | could | man | spite of the fire | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in spite=Location | |||
| 3 | spite | the fire | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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