The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 90
She missed them in the piercing cold, but the reindeer did not dare to stop.
Who acts: woman, reindeer · What happens: miss, not dare, not stop · To what, where: gloves, piercing
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 (woman, reindeer), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 missed | nsubj |
| 2 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 missed | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 piercing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 piercing | det |
| 6 | piercing | piercing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 missed | obl |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piercing | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dare | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 dare | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reindeer | det |
| 11 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dare | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dare | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 dare | advmod |
| 14 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 missed | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stop | mark |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dare | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | woman | gloves = glove | the piercing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not dare | past · do-support | the reindeer | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not stop | to-infinitive | the reindeer not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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