The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 12

But she was not altogether easy to bring up, and gave her parents much trouble and anxiety, for all summer she insisted on spending in the cellar, and in the winter she would sleep outside in the snow, and the colder it was the happier she seemed to be.

Who acts: woman, it · What happens: not be, bring up, give, insist, sleep, be · To what, where: much trouble, parents, spending, cellar, snow

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 easy	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 easy	advmod
5	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	6 easy	advmod
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bring	mark
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 bring	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	parataxis
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 parents	nmod:poss
14	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	iobj
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trouble	amod
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 anxiety	cc
18	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trouble	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 insisted	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 summer	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 summer	det
22	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 insisted	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 insisted	nsubj
24	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 spending	case
26	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 insisted	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 cellar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cellar	det
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spending	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sleep	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sleep	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 winter	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 winter	det
34	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sleep	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sleep	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 sleep	aux
37	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 insisted	conj
38	outside	outside	ADV	_	37 sleep	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 snow	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 snow	det
41	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sleep	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 colder	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 colder	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 colder	det
45	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 easy	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 happier	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 happier	cop
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 happier	det
49	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 colder	conj
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 seemed	nsubj
51	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 happier	ccomp
52	to	to	PART	_	53 be	mark
53	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 seemed	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	woman					altogether, easy property	tree rules
2	bring up	to-infinitive	woman not said here						vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	give	past		much trouble and anxiety	woman's parents				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient trouble=Theme
4	insist speech: other	past	woman	spending		the cellar	summer		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent spending=Topic
5	sleep	would	woman			the snow	winter	outside property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location
6	be		woman not said here						tree rules
7	is	past	it					happy property	tree rules
8	seem	past	woman						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	be	to-infinitive	woman not said here						vn exist-47.1 «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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