The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 79

And poor Kay had also a splinter in his heart, and it began to change into a lump of ice.

Who acts: poor Kay, splinter · What happens: have, begin, change · To what, where: splinter, heart, 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 (poor Kay, splinter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Kay	amod
3	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	also	also	ADV	_	7 splinter	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 splinter	det
7	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 heart	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 splinter	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 change	mark
16	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 lump	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lump	det
19	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 change	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 ice	case
21	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lump	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	poor Kay	a splinter	Gerda's heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Patient
2	begin	past	splinter				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	change	to-infinitive	splinter not said here			into a lump of ice result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into lump=Result

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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