The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 46
Then King Frost sprang to and fro in front of her, questioning her, and getting only rude, rough words in reply, till at last he got very angry, and cracked his fingers, and gnashed his teeth, and froze her to death.
Who acts: King Frost, frost · What happens: spring, fro, question, get, crack, gnash · To what, where: front, fool, rude rough words, reply, last, fingers
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Frost | compound |
| 3 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fro | cc |
| 7 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sprang | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fro | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 front | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 questioning | punct |
| 13 | questioning | question | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fro | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 questioning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 getting | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 getting | cc |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sprang | advcl |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 rude | advmod |
| 19 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 words | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rude | punct |
| 21 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 words | amod |
| 22 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 getting | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 reply | case |
| 24 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 getting | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 last | punct |
| 26 | till | till | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 getting | conj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 last | acl:relcl |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 angry | advmod |
| 32 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 got | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 cracked | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cracked | cc |
| 35 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 cracked | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gnashed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 gnashed | cc |
| 40 | gnashed | gnash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 42 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gnashed | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 froze | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 froze | cc |
| 45 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | parataxis |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 froze | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 death | case |
| 48 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 froze | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | King Frost | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | King Frost not said here | front of fool | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | question speech: other | gerund | King Frost not said here | fool | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | get | gerund | King Frost not said here | rude rough words | reply | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | get | past | frost | last not said here | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer last=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | crack | past | King Frost not said here | frost's fingers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme | ||||
| 7 | gnash | past | King Frost not said here | frost's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 8 | freeze | past | fool | to death | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=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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