The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 27

Now her gentle, courteous words and her uncomplaining ways touched King Frost, and he had pity on her, and he wrapped her up in furs, and covered her with blankets, and he fetched a great box, in which were beautiful jewels and a rich robe embroidered in gold and silver.

Who acts: gentle courteous words, frost, girl · What happens: touch, have, wrap up, cover, fetch, be · To what, where: King Frost, pity, girl, furs, great box, beautiful jewels

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 (gentle courteous words, frost, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 touched	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 words	nmod:poss
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gentle	punct
5	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 touched	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ways	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ways	nmod:poss
9	uncomplaining	uncomplaining	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ways	compound
10	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 words	conj
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Frost	compound
13	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touched	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 touched	conj
18	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wrapped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wrapped	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wrapped	nsubj
24	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 touched	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wrapped	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 wrapped	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 furs	case
28	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wrapped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 covered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 covered	cc
31	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 touched	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 covered	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 blankets	case
34	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 covered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fetched	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fetched	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fetched	nsubj
38	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 touched	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 box	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 box	amod
41	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fetched	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 jewels	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 which	case
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 jewels	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 jewels	cop
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 jewels	amod
47	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fetched	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 robe	cc
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 robe	det
50	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 robe	amod
51	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 jewels	conj
52	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 robe	acl
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 gold	case
54	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 embroidered	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 silver	cc
56	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 gold	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	girl's gentle courteous words and girl's uncomplaining ways	King Frost			now		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frost=Co-Theme
2	have	past	frost	pity				on girl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
3	wrap up	past	frost	girl		furs			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in fur=Destination
4	cover	past	girl's gentle courteous words and girl's uncomplaining ways not said here		girl			with blankets	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with blanket=Theme
5	fetch	past	frost	a great box					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
6	is a	past		beautiful jewels and a rich robe					tree rules
7	embroider	participle		a rich robe not said here		gold and silver			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination
8	word		girl						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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