The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 19

Then King Frost stooped down, and bent over the girl, and the crackling sound grew louder, and the air seemed to be full of knives and darts; and again he asked:

Who acts: King, crackling sound, air · What happens: stoop down, bend, grow, seem, be, ask

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 (King, crackling sound, air), 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	4 stooped	advmod
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stooped	nsubj
3	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 stooped	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bent	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bent	cc
8	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stooped	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 girl	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sound	det
15	crackling	crackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sound	compound
16	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stooped	conj
18	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grew	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seemed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grew	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 full	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 full	cop
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 seemed	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 knives	case
28	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 full	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 darts	cc
30	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 knives	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 asked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 asked	cc
33	again	again	ADV	_	35 asked	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 asked	nsubj
35	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stooped	parataxis
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stoop down	past	King	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bend	participle	King not said here		over the girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over girl=Location
3	grow	past	the crackling sound		loud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	the air			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	the air not said here		of knives and darts; full property	tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	past	king	again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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