The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 26
And the poor girl was so stiff and numb that she could just gasp, ‘Still warm, O King!’
Who acts: poor girl, girl · What happens: be, gasp
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 (poor girl, 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 | _ | 7 stiff | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stiff | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stiff | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 stiff | advmod |
| 7 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 numb | cc |
| 9 | numb | numb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stiff | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 gasp | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gasp | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 gasp | aux |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 gasp | advmod |
| 14 | gasp | gasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 numb | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 warm | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 warm | punct |
| 17 | Still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 warm | amod |
| 18 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stiff | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 King | punct |
| 20 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 21 King | case |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 warm | parataxis |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 King | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stiff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor girl | stiff property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the poor girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | gasp | could | girl | 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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