The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 163

He must starve and freeze, and that must be very pleasant for him, I must say!’

Who acts: man, that, I · What happens: starve, freeze, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, that, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 starve	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 starve	aux
3	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 freeze	cc
5	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 starve	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pleasant	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pleasant	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 pleasant	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pleasant	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 pleasant	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 pleasant	advmod
12	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 starve	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pleasant	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 starve	parataxis
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 starve	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 starve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	starve	must	man		tree rules
2	freeze	infinitive	man not said here		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	must	that	for man; pleasant property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	must	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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