The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 128

It was such a happy time that the pieces of ice even danced round them for joy, and when they were tired and lay down again they formed themselves into the letters that the Snow-queen had said he must spell in order to become his own master and have the whole world and a new pair of skates.

Who acts: joy, pieces, ice, Snow queen, Kay · What happens: be, dance, lay down, form, say, spell · To what, where: happy time, ice, letters, own master, whole world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (joy, pieces, ice, Snow queen), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 time	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 danced	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pieces	det
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 danced	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 ice	case
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pieces	nmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 danced	advmod
13	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	advcl
14	round	round	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 danced	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 joy	case
17	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 danced	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tired	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 tired	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tired	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	cop
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 danced	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lay	cc
25	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tired	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 lay	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	29 formed	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 formed	nsubj
29	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lay	advcl
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 formed	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 letters	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 letters	det
33	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 formed	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 said	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 queen	det
36	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 queen	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Snow	punct
38	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 said	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 said	aux
40	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 letters	acl:relcl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 spell	nsubj
42	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 spell	aux
43	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 said	ccomp
44	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	47 become	mark
45	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 in	fixed
46	to	to	PART	_	47 become	mark
47	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 spell	advcl
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 master	nmod:poss
49	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 master	amod
50	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 become	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 have	cc
52	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 spell	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 world	det
54	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 world	amod
55	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 have	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 pair	cc
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 pair	det
58	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 pair	amod
59	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 world	conj
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 skates	case
61	skates	skate	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 pair	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	joy	such happy time				tree rules
2	dance	past	the pieces of ice				round ice; for joy	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory
3	is	past	ice				tired property	tree rules
4	lay down	infinitive	ice not said here				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	form	past	ice	ice	the letters	again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the Snow queen	the letters				tree rules
7	spell	must	Kay					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent
8	become	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	Kay's own master				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	have	present	Kay not said here	the whole world and a new pair of skates				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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