The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 18
‘Quite warm, King Frost,’ she answered, though she shivered as she spoke.
Who acts: fair · What happens: answer, shiver, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fair), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 warm | punct |
| 2 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 warm | advmod |
| 3 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Frost | punct |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Frost | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warm | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 warm | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shivered | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 shivered | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shivered | nsubj |
| 14 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 spoke | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spoke | nsubj |
| 17 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shivered | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | fair | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shiver | past | fair | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | fair | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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