The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 120
The kiss was cold as ice and reached down to his heart, which was already half a lump of ice.
Who acts: kiss, heart · What happens: be, reach down · To what, where: lump
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kiss, heart), 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 | 2 kiss | det |
| 2 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reached | cc |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 reached | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lump | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lump | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lump | cop |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 half | advmod |
| 17 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 19 lump | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lump | det |
| 19 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heart | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ice | case |
| 21 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lump | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the kiss | as ice; cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach down | past | the kiss not said here | to masterpiece's heart; down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | masterpiece's heart | half lump | of ice | 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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