The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 21
I am half frozen, and only wish to warm myself a little.”
What happens: freeze, wish, warm · To what, where: I, myself
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 frozen | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frozen | aux:pass |
| 3 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 frozen | advmod |
| 4 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wish | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 wish | advmod |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frozen | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 warm | mark |
| 10 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 warm | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warm | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frozen | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present · passive | I | half property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | warm not said to happen | to-infinitive | myself | a little obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=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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