The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 51

‘But he shall not succeed,’ cried he of the little hat, ‘I will make a frost come which shall make the fire ashamed and die out!’

Who acts: King, I, frost · What happens: not succeed, cry, make, come, die out · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I, frost), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 succeed	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 succeed	cc
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 succeed	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 succeed	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 succeed	advmod
6	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 succeed	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 succeed	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 hat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hat	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hat	amod
14	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 frost	det
21	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 make	conj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 make	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fire	det
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
28	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 make	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 die	cc
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 die	compound:prt
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not succeed	shall	King			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	King		of the little hat	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	future	I			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	a frost			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	shall		the fire	ashamed property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
6	die out	infinitive				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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