The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 18

But he ceased to think it a joke when his wife shortly afterwards gave birth to a boy, who screamed lustily till he was put quite close to the fire, and who nearly yelled himself into a fit if the Snow-daughter came anywhere near him.

Who acts: spark, wife, boy, Snow daughter · What happens: cease, think, give, scream, put, yell · To what, where: joke, birth, boy, spark, fit

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 (spark, wife, boy, Snow daughter), 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	_	3 ceased	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ceased	nsubj
3	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ceased	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 gave	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
12	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	14 gave	advmod
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	14 gave	advmod
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	advcl
15	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 boy	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 screamed	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 screamed	nsubj
21	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 boy	acl:relcl
22	lustily	lustily	ADV	_	21 screamed	advmod
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 put	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux:pass
26	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 screamed	advcl
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 close	advmod
28	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 put	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 fire	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fire	det
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 close	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 yelled	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 yelled	cc
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 yelled	nsubj
35	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	36 yelled	advmod
36	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ceased	conj
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 yelled	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 fit	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 fit	det
40	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 yelled	obl
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 came	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 daughter	det
43	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 daughter	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 Snow	punct
45	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 came	nsubj
46	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 yelled	advcl
47	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	46 came	advmod
48	near	near	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 came	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	spark					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	spark not said here	joke				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme joke=Attribute
3	give	past	spark's wife	birth	a boy		afterwards, shortly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to boy=Recipient
4	scream speech: express	past	a boy				lustily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	put	past · passive		spark			close property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
6	yell speech: express	past		spark		a fit	nearly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Topic into fit=Recipient
7	come a condition, not said to happen	past	the Snow daughter				near spark; anywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location

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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