The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 92

On a winter’s day he would take a burning glass and hold it out on his blue coat and let the snow-flakes fall on it.

Who acts: frost, snow flakes · What happens: take, burn, hold out, let, fall · To what, where: burning glass, glass, blue coat, coat

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 (frost, snow flakes), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 winter	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glass	det
10	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 glass	amod
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hold	cc
13	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 take	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hold	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 hold	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 coat	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 coat	nmod:poss
18	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 coat	amod
19	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 take	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 flakes	det
23	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flakes	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 snow	punct
25	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fall	nsubj
26	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 let	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fall	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	would	frost	a burning glass		day	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
2	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold out	infinitive	frost not said here	glass	frost's blue coat		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on coat=Location
4	let	infinitive	frost not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	fall	present	the snow flakes		coat		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location

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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