The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 45
‘Can’t you see that my hands and feet are nearly frozen?’
Who acts: you · What happens: not see, freeze · To what, where: hands
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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 frozen | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feet | cc |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hands | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 frozen | aux:pass |
| 12 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 frozen | advmod |
| 13 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | freeze | present · passive | my hands and feet | nearly property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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