The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 9

So he placed his daughter in a sledge, not even daring to give her a horse-cloth to keep herself warm with, and drove her out on to the bare, open fields, where he kissed her and left her, driving home as fast as he could, that he might not witness her miserable death.

Who acts: frost, girl · What happens: place, not dare, not give, keep, drive out, kiss · To what, where: daughter, sledge, horse cloth, girl, bare open fields, miserable death

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 (frost, girl), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 placed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sledge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sledge	det
8	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daring	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 daring	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 daring	advmod
12	daring	dare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 placed	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 daring	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cloth	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cloth	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 horse	punct
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 keep	mark
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	advcl
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 keep	obj
23	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keep	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	23 warm	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drove	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drove	cc
27	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drove	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 drove	compound:prt
30	on	on	ADP	_	36 fields	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	36 fields	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fields	det
33	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fields	amod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bare	punct
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fields	amod
36	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 drove	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 kissed	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 kissed	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kissed	nsubj
40	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fields	acl:relcl
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kissed	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 left	cc
43	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 left	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 driving	punct
46	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 left	advcl
47	home	home	ADV	_	46 driving	advmod
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 fast	advmod
49	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 driving	advmod
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 could	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 could	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 fast	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 witness	punct
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 witness	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 witness	nsubj
56	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 witness	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 witness	advmod
58	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 driving	obl
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 death	nmod:poss
60	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 death	amod
61	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 witness	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past	frost	frost's daughter		a sledge		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in sledge=Destination
2	not dare	gerund	frost not said here					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not give	to-infinitive	frost not said here	a horse cloth	girl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cloth=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	frost not said here	girl			warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
5	drive out	past	frost not said here	girl		the bare open fields		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on field=Destination
6	kiss	past	frost	girl				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
7	leave	past	frost not said here	girl				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	drive	gerund	frost not said here				fast, home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
9	not witness	might	frost	girl's miserable death				tree rules
10	die		girl					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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