The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 19

The Snow-daughter herself avoided him as much as she could, and always crept into a corner as far away from him as possible.

Who acts: Snow daughter · What happens: avoid, creep · To what, where: spark, corner

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughter	det
2	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Snow	punct
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoided	nsubj
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 avoided	nsubj
6	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 avoided	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 avoided	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 much	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crept	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 crept	cc
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 crept	advmod
16	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 avoided	parataxis
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 corner	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 corner	det
19	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crept	obl
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 away	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	16 crept	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 away	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 possible	mark
26	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 away	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 avoided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	past	the Snow daughter	spark					tree rules
2	creep	past				a corner		always, away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination

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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