The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 27

The Fire-son said, ‘I love you with all my heart, but at the same time I always freeze if you are near me, and you nearly die of heat if I approach you!

Who acts: Fire son, I, you · What happens: say, love, freeze, be, die, approach · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fire son, I, you), 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 son	det
2	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Fire	punct
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 love	nsubj
9	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 love	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 heart	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 heart	det:predet
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heart	nmod:poss
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 love	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 freeze	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 freeze	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 freeze	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 freeze	nsubj
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 freeze	advmod
23	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 love	parataxis
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 me	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 me	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 me	cop
27	near	near	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 freeze	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 die	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 die	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 die	nsubj
32	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	33 die	advmod
33	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 heat	case
35	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 die	obl
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 approach	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 approach	nsubj
38	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 die	advcl
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 approach	obj
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Fire son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	present	I	you		with my heart	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	freeze	present	I		time	always property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			near me	tree rules
5	die	present	you			of heat; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of heat=Causer
6	approach a condition, not said to happen	present	I	you			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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