The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 33
The old peasant grew cold with horror as he listened, and seemed frozen to the place where he stood.
Who acts: old peasant, peasant · What happens: grow, listen, freeze, stand
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old peasant, peasant), 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 | 3 peasant | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 peasant | amod |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 horror | case |
| 7 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 listened | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 listened | nsubj |
| 10 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frozen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 frozen | cc |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frozen | aux:pass |
| 14 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grew | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frozen | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 stood | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the old peasant | with horror; cold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | peasant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | freeze | past · passive | the old peasant not said here | to the place | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | peasant | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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