The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 103
Little Kay was almost blue and black with cold, but he did not feel it, for she had kissed away his feelings and his heart was a lump of ice.
Who acts: Little Kay, Kay, queen, heart · What happens: be, not feel, kiss away · To what, where: home, feelings, lump
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Kay, Kay, queen, heart), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Kay | amod |
| 2 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | cop |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 blue | advmod |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 black | cc |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blue | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 cold | case |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 black | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 feel | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 feel | advmod |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 blue | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kissed | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 kissed | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kissed | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kissed | aux |
| 21 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 feel | parataxis |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 kissed | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kissed | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lump | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lump | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lump | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lump | det |
| 30 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kissed | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 ice | case |
| 32 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lump | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Little Kay | almost, blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Little Kay not said here | with cold | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not feel | past · do-support | Kay | home | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kiss away | past · perfect | queen | Kay's feelings | away property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | is a | past | Kay's heart | a lump | of ice | tree rules |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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