The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 13

The snows fell and melted, yet he never returned; and at last the heart of the girl grew cold and hard, and her little boy became a burden in her eyes, till one day she spoke thus to him: ‘See, there is food for many days to come.

Who acts: snows, snow, little boy, girl, food · What happens: fall, melt, not return, grow, become, speak · To what, where: last heart, burden, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snows, snow, little boy, girl), 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 snows	det
2	snows	snow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 melted	cc
5	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	10 returned	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 returned	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 returned	advmod
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 heart	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heart	amod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heart	det
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 girl	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heart	nmod
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
21	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hard	cc
23	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cold	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 boy	nmod:poss
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boy	amod
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grew	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 burden	det
31	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 burden	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 spoke	punct
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 spoke	mark
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 day	nummod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spoke	obl:unmarked
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 spoke	nsubj
40	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 became	conj
41	thus	thus	ADV	_	40 spoke	advmod
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 spoke	obl
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 See	punct
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 See	punct
46	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 is	punct
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 is	expl
49	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 See	ccomp
50	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 is	nsubj
51	for	for	ADP	_	53 days	case
52	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 days	amod
53	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 is	obl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 come	mark
55	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 days	acl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the snows						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	melt	past	the snows not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not return	past	snow						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	the snows not said here			the last heart of the girl		cold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heart=Location
5	become	past	girl's little boy	a burden in girl's eyes					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	speak speech: other	past	girl		boy		day	thus property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
7	see	infinitive	the snows not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	be	present	food			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	come	to-infinitive	food not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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