The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 39
The King had a huge house of ice made for his wife underground, so that even in summer it did not melt.
Who acts: King, house · What happens: have, make, not melt · To what, where: huge house, ice
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 (King, house), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ice | case |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ice | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 13 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 12 wife | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 melt | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 melt | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 summer | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 summer | case |
| 19 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 melt | obj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 melt | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 melt | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 melt | advmod |
| 23 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | a huge house of ice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | ice not said here | for King's wife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wife=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | not melt | past · do-support | house | summer | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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