The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 168

How cold it is!’ she said, sobbing, and shivering with cold.

Who acts: way, girl · What happens: be, say, sob, shiver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, girl), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cold	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cold	cop
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sobbing	punct
10	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shivering	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shivering	cc
13	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sobbing	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 cold	case
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shivering	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	way	cold property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	girl		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sob	gerund	girl not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shiver	gerund	girl not said here	with cold	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 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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