The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 12

At length he reached the fir-tree beneath which she was sitting, and with a crisp crackling sound he alighted beside her, and looked at her lovely face.

Who acts: frost, girl · What happens: reach, sit, crackle, alight, look · To what, where: fir tree, length, sound

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frost, girl), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fir	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sitting	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sitting	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sitting	aux
13	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 tree	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crackling	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crackling	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 crisp	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 crisp	det
18	crisp	crisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crackling	obl
19	crackling	crackle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sitting	conj
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crackling	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 alighted	nsubj
22	alighted	alight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 crackling	parataxis
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 alighted	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 face	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
30	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 face	amod
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	frost	the fir tree	length		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Theme at length=Asset
2	sit	past · progressive	girl		the fir tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath which=Location
3	crackle	gerund	girl not said here	sound		with a crisp	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme
4	alight	past	frost			beside girl	tree rules
5	look	past	frost not said here			at girl's lovely face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=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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