The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 22
And though her breath was almost frozen on her lips, she whispered gently, ‘Quite warm, King Frost.’
Who acts: girl · What happens: freeze, whisper · To what, where: breath, lips
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 whispered | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 frozen | mark |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 breath | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frozen | aux:pass |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 frozen | advmod |
| 7 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 whispered | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lips | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 frozen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 frozen | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whispered | nsubj |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 13 whispered | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 warm | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 warm | punct |
| 17 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 warm | advmod |
| 18 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whispered | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Frost | punct |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Frost | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 warm | vocative |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 warm | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past · passive | girl's breath | girl's lips | almost property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | girl | gently property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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