The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 136

After a little while she began to feel very cold, and turned round so often that she woke Frisk, who started up, and, having a very good nose, smelt the soles and herrings so close to him that he began to bark.

Who acts: Rosette, Frisk · What happens: begin, feel, turn round, wake, start up, have · To what, where: Frisk, good nose, soles

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette, Frisk), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 little	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 began	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 began	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feel	mark
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 cold	advmod
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 turned	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 often	advmod
16	often	often	ADV	_	13 turned	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 woke	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 woke	nsubj
19	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	advcl
20	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 woke	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 started	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 started	nsubj
23	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Frisk	acl:relcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 started	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 smelt	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 smelt	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 having	punct
28	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 smelt	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 nose	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 nose	amod
32	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 having	punct
34	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 soles	det
36	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 smelt	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 herrings	cc
38	herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 soles	conj
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 close	advmod
40	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 smelt	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 close	obl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 began	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 began	nsubj
45	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 close	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 bark	mark
47	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 began	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Rosette		after a little		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	Rosette not said here			cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	turn round	past	Rosette not said here			often, round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	wake	past	Rosette	Frisk			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent frisk=Patient
5	start up	past	Frisk				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	have	gerund		a good nose			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
7	smelt	infinitive		the soles and herrings			tree rules
8	begin	past	Frisk				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	bark	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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