The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 33

‘Hold your tongue, you foolish beast!’ scolded the woman.

What happens: hold, scold · To what, where: tongue, woman

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 scolded	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tongue	nmod:poss
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Hold	obj
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
11	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scolded	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 scolded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	infinitive		your tongue					tree rules
2	scold	past		the woman					tree rules

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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