The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 172

But the bird was not dead: he had been frozen, but now that she had warmed him, he was coming to life again.

Who acts: bird, sun, thing · What happens: not be, freeze, warm, come · To what, where: thing, life

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 (bird, sun, thing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 dead	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 frozen	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 frozen	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frozen	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 frozen	aux:pass
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dead	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 warmed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 warmed	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 warmed	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 warmed	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 warmed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 warmed	aux
18	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 frozen	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 warmed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 coming	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 coming	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 coming	aux
23	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dead	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 life	case
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 coming	obl
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 coming	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the bird				dead property	tree rules
2	freeze	past · perfect · passive		thing				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
3	warm	past · perfect	sun	thing		now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	come	past · progressive	thing		life	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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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