The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 81
Ah! then it froze him, and he crept down again into his warm corner; there it was comfortable and cosy.
Who acts: spite, light · What happens: freeze, creep down, be · To what, where: light, warm corner
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite, light), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 froze | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 froze | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 froze | nsubj |
| 5 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 froze | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crept | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 crept | nsubj |
| 10 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 froze | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 crept | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 crept | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 corner | nmod:poss |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 corner | amod |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crept | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 comfortable | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 comfortable | expl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 comfortable | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 comfortable | cop |
| 21 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 froze | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cosy | cc |
| 23 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 comfortable | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 froze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past | spite | light | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result | |||
| 2 | creep down | past | light | light's warm corner | again | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination | ||
| 3 | is | past | spite | there | comfortable property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | spite not said here | 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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