The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 7

Then a tiny icicle detached itself from the roof, and dropped into the woman’s mouth, who swallowed it with a smile, and said, ‘Perhaps I shall give birth to a snow child now!’

Who acts: tiny icicle, mouth, I · What happens: detach, drop, swallow, say, give · To what, where: couple, mouth, birth, snow child · 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 (tiny icicle, mouth, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 detached	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 icicle	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 icicle	amod
4	icicle	icicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 detached	nsubj
5	detached	detach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 detached	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 detached	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dropped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dropped	cc
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 detached	parataxis
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mouth	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 woman	case
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swallowed	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 swallowed	nsubj
20	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mouth	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 swallowed	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 smile	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 smile	det
24	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swallowed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 detached	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
30	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	33 give	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 give	aux
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
34	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 child	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 child	det
37	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 child	compound
38	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obl
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 give	advmod
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	detach	past	a tiny icicle	couple			then	from the roof	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient from roof=Co-Patient
2	drop	participle				the woman's mouth			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into mouth=Trajectory
3	swallow	past	the woman's mouth	couple				with a smile	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	a tiny icicle not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	shall	I	birth	a snow child		now	perhaps property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to child=Recipient

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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