The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 55

And as the wind blew the corpses one against the other, tossing them to and fro, he thought to himself: “If you are perishing down here by the fire, how those poor things up there must be shaking and shivering!”

Who acts: wind, poor things · What happens: blow, toss, fro, think, perish down, shake · To what, where: corpses, wind · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wind, poor things), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 blew	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 corpses	det
7	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blew	obj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 corpses	flat
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tossing	punct
13	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 blew	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tossing	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 fro	case
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fro	cc
17	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tossing	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blew	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 thought	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 perishing	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 perishing	punct
25	If	if	SCONJ	_	28 perishing	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 perishing	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 perishing	aux
28	perishing	perish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 thought	ccomp
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 perishing	advmod
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 perishing	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 fire	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fire	det
33	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 perishing	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 shaking	punct
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 shaking	advmod
36	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 things	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 things	amod
38	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 shaking	nsubj
39	up	up	ADP	_	40 there	advmod
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 things	advmod
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 shaking	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 shaking	aux
43	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 perishing	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 shivering	cc
45	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 shaking	conj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 perishing	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 perishing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind	the corpses				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent corpse=Patient
2	toss	gerund	the wind not said here	corpses = corpse				tree rules
3	fro	infinitive	the wind not said here					tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	wind		wind			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	perish down a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · progressive	wind			here	by the fire; down property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	shake in a quote	must · progressive	that poor things					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	shiver in a quote	gerund	that poor things 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 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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