The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 49
‘Your daughter is frozen quite stiff and cold, And shall never have a chest full of gold.’
What happens: freeze, not have · To what, where: daughter, chest
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 | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frozen | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 frozen | aux:pass |
| 5 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 stiff | advmod |
| 7 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 frozen | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cold | cc |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stiff | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 have | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 frozen | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chest | det |
| 16 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chest | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present · passive | Your daughter | stiff property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | not have | shall | a chest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient |
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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