The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 169

‘Oh dear! oh dear! it’s cold enough to freeze a poor old body to death!’ and she shivered and shook again, and said, ‘For heaven’s sake give me leave to stay here and sit just inside the stable door.’

Who acts: girl · What happens: freeze, shiver, shake, say, give, leave · To what, where: poor old body, me, stable door · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 dear	discourse
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
5	oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 dear	discourse
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dear	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ’s	nsubj
9	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dear	parataxis
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ’s	xcomp
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 cold	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 freeze	mark
13	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cold	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 body	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 body	amod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 body	amod
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 freeze	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 death	case
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 freeze	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 ’s	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shivered	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shivered	nsubj
24	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ’s	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shook	cc
26	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shivered	conj
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 shook	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shivered	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
33	For	for	ADP	_	36 sake	case
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sake	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 heaven	case
36	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obl
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 give	xcomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 stay	mark
41	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 leave	advcl
42	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 stay	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sit	cc
44	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 stay	conj
45	just	just	ADV	_	49 door	advmod
46	inside	inside	ADP	_	49 door	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 door	det
48	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 door	amod
49	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sit	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	to-infinitive		a poor old body				to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient body=Result
2	shiver	past	girl						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	shake	past	girl not said here				again		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	girl not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	infinitive			me			for heaven's sake	tree rules
6	leave	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stay	to-infinitive				here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sit	present				the stable door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside door=Location

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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