The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 45

‘My dear child, it is far too cold; you might freeze to death.’

Who acts: dear child, you · What happens: be, freeze

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear child, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 child	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cold	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cold	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cold	cop
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 cold	advmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 cold	advmod
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 freeze	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 freeze	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 freeze	aux
14	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cold	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 freeze	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	My dear child					cold, far property	tree rules
2	freeze	might	you					to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 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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