The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 7
Send her out into the fields, and let the cutting frost do for her.’
Who acts: you · What happens: send out, let · To what, where: girl, fields
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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Send | iobj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Send | compound:prt |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 fields | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Send | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Send | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 frost | det |
| 11 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frost | compound |
| 12 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | imperative | you not said here | girl | the fields | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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