The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 117

The biting cold winds became quiet as if they had fallen asleep when she appeared in the great, empty, freezing hall.

Who acts: biting, winds · What happens: become, fall, appear, freeze · To what, where: great freezing hall

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 (biting, winds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 biting	det
2	biting	biting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 winds	amod
4	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 fallen	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 fallen	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fallen	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fallen	aux
11	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 became	advcl
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fallen	xcomp
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 appeared	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 appeared	nsubj
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fallen	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	23 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hall	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hall	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 empty	punct
20	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 great	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 freezing	punct
22	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 hall	amod
23	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appeared	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the biting		quiet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fall	past · perfect	winds = wind		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	appear	past	biting	the great freezing hall		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location
4	freeze	gerund				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 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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