The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 52
So he put his hat on straight, and at once there came such a frost that all the heat disappeared and the food on the dishes began to freeze.
Who acts: King, heat, food · What happens: put, come, disappear, begin, freeze · To what, where: hat, frost
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, heat, food), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 straight | case |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 came | obl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 once | advmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 frost | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 frost | det |
| 16 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 disappeared | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 heat | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heat | det |
| 20 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 frost | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 began | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 food | det |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 began | nsubj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 dishes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dishes | det |
| 27 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 food | nmod |
| 28 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 disappeared | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 freeze | mark |
| 30 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 began | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | King | King's hat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on straight=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | King not said here | such frost | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frost=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | all heat | such frost | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the food on the dishes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | freeze | to-infinitive | the food on the dishes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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