The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 22

He was as red as fire, and as hot to touch, and he always sat on the hearth quite close to the fire, and complained of the cold; if his sister were in the room he almost crept into the flames, while the girl on her part always complained of the great heat if her brother were anywhere near.

Who acts: boy, sister, brother · What happens: be, touch, sit, complain, creep · To what, where: hearth, room, flames, girl

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 (boy, sister, brother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 red	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 red	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 red	advmod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hot	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hot	cc
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 touch	mark
12	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hot	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 sat	advmod
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 red	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 hearth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hearth	det
20	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 close	advmod
22	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hearth	amod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 close	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 complained	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 complained	cc
28	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 cold	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cold	det
31	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 complained	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 room	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 room	mark
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 sister	nmod:poss
35	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 room	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 room	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 room	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 room	det
39	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	conj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 crept	nsubj
41	almost	almost	ADV	_	42 crept	advmod
42	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 room	parataxis
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 flames	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 flames	det
45	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 crept	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 complained	punct
47	while	while	SCONJ	_	54 complained	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 girl	det
49	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 complained	nsubj:pass
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 part	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 part	nmod:poss
52	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 girl	nmod
53	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	54 complained	advmod
54	complained	complain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 crept	parataxis
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 heat	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 heat	det
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 heat	amod
58	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 complained	obl
59	if	if	SCONJ	_	63 anywhere	mark
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 brother	nmod:poss
61	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 anywhere	nsubj
62	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 anywhere	cop
63	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	54 complained	advmod
64	near	near	ADV	_	63 anywhere	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy			as fire; red property	tree rules
2	be		boy not said here				tree rules
3	touch	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	past	boy		the hearth	always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hearth=Location
5	complain speech: other	past	boy not said here			of the cold	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	boy's sister		the room		tree rules
7	creep	past	boy		the flames	almost property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into flame=Destination
8	complain speech: other	participle · passive		the girl on girl's part		of the great heat; always property	tree rules
9	is a condition, not said to happen	past	girl's brother			anywhere, near property	tree rules

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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