The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 173

It was a long night, but the Snow-man did not find it so; there he stood, wrapt in his pleasant thoughts, and they froze, so that he cracked.

Who acts: room, Snow man, man, thoughts · What happens: be, not find, stand, freeze, crack, think · To what, where: long night, room, wrapt, pleasant thoughts

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, Snow man, man, thoughts), 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	5 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 night	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 find	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Snow	punct
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 find	advmod
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 night	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 find	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	14 find	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	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	14 find	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wrapt	punct
22	wrapt	wrapt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 thoughts	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 thoughts	nmod:poss
25	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thoughts	amod
26	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stood	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 froze	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 froze	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 froze	nsubj
30	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cracked	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 cracked	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cracked	nsubj
35	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 froze	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	room	a long night		tree rules
2	not find	past · do-support	the Snow man	room		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	stand	past	man	wrapt	man's pleasant thoughts; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thought=Location
4	freeze	past	thoughts = thought			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	crack	past	man			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
6	think		man			nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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