The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 53
At that moment the door flew open, and she rushed out to meet her daughter, and as she took her frozen body in her arms she too was chilled to death.
Who acts: door · What happens: fly, rush out, meet, take, freeze, chill · To what, where: daughter, frozen body, arms, door
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 (door), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flew | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rushed | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rushed | nsubj |
| 11 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 rushed | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rushed | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 took | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 body | nmod:poss |
| 23 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 body | amod |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 arms | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 arms | nmod:poss |
| 27 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 chilled | nsubj |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 31 chilled | advmod |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 chilled | aux:pass |
| 31 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 arms | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 death | case |
| 33 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 chilled | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the door | moment | open property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rush out | past | door | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | door not said here | door's daughter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | door | door's frozen body | door's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 5 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | chill | past · passive | door | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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