The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 58

It made her shiver with fright to hear the cabbage talk, but he went on:

Who acts: voice, winding, cabbage · What happens: make, hear, go on, shiver · To what, where: shiver, cabbage talk

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, winding, cabbage), 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shiver	nmod:poss
4	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 fright	case
6	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 talk	det
10	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	compound
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	voice	cabbage's shiver	with fright	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material shiver=Product
2	hear	to-infinitive	voice not said here	the cabbage talk		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
3	go on	past	winding			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shiver		cabbage			nom shiver «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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