The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 32

For a long time the Fire-son and the Snow-daughter wandered through the world, and when at the beginning of winter they came to a big wood they determined to stay there till spring.

Who acts: Fire son, children · What happens: wander, come, determine, stay, begin · To what, where: world, beginning, big wood, winter

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, children), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wandered	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
6	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 son	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Fire	punct
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wandered	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 daughter	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 daughter	det
11	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 daughter	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Snow	punct
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	conj
14	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wandered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 came	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 beginning	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beginning	det
23	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 winter	case
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beginning	nmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wandered	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 wood	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wood	det
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wood	amod
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 determined	nsubj
33	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wood	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 stay	mark
35	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 determined	xcomp
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 stay	advmod
37	till	till	ADP	_	38 spring	case
38	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stay	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the Fire son and the Snow daughter		the world	time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory
2	come	past	children = child			at the beginning of winter	to a big wood	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
3	determine	past	children = child	a big wood not said here				tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive	children = child not said here		there	spring		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin			winter				nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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