The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 73

If you strew it about even in the hottest summer the air at once becomes cold, and snow falls, and the people freeze.’

Who acts: you, snow, people · What happens: strew, become, fall, freeze · To what, where: straw

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, snow, people), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 strew	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 strew	nsubj
3	strew	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 becomes	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strew	obj
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 summer	mark
6	even	even	ADV	_	10 summer	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 summer	det
9	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 summer	amod
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strew	obl:unmarked
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 summer	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 strew	obl
15	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 becomes	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 falls	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 falls	cc
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 falls	nsubj
20	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 becomes	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 freeze	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 freeze	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 freeze	nsubj
25	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 becomes	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 freeze	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 freeze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	strew a condition, not said to happen	present	you	straw	summer		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Destination
2	become	present				cold property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	fall	present	snow				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	freeze	present	the people				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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