The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 127
She was terribly cold, for her clothes were ragged, and she herself was so small and thin.
Who acts: flower, clothes · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, clothes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 3 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ragged | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 ragged | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 ragged | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ragged | cop |
| 10 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 small | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 small | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 small | nsubj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 she | conj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 small | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 small | advmod |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thin | cc |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 small | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | flower | cold, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | flower's clothes | ragged property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | flower | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | flower not said here | tree rules |
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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