The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 42
In a few minutes King Frost came past, and, looking at the girl, he said:
Who acts: King Frost, frost · What happens: come, look, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 Frost, frost), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Frost | compound |
| 6 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | past | past | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 said | ccomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King Frost | minute | past property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | at the girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | frost | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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