The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 23

Then King Frost gnashed his teeth, and cracked his fingers, and his eyes sparkled, and the crackling, crisp sound was louder than ever, and for the last time he asked her:

Who acts: King, eyes, crackling · What happens: gnash, crack, sparkle, be, ask · To what, where: teeth, fingers, girl

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, eyes, crackling), 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 gnashed	advmod
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gnashed	nsubj
3	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	gnashed	gnash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teeth	nmod:poss
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gnashed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cracked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cracked	cc
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gnashed	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fingers	nmod:poss
11	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cracked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sparkled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sparkled	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sparkled	nsubj
16	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gnashed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 louder	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 louder	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crackling	det
20	crackling	crackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 louder	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sound	punct
22	crisp	crisp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sound	amod
23	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crackling	conj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 louder	cop
25	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 sparkled	conj
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 ever	case
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 louder	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 asked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 asked	cc
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 time	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 asked	obl
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 gnashed	parataxis
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 asked	obj
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	gnash	past	King	king's teeth		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	crack	past	King not said here	king's fingers				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme
3	sparkle	past	king's eyes					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the crackling and crisp sound				loud property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	past	king		girl	time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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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