The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 181
‘Oh!’ she said, ‘it is very cold outside; it is snowing and freezing! stay in your warm bed; I will take care of you!’
Who acts: snow, strength, it, I · What happens: say, be, snow, freeze, stay, take · To what, where: warm bed, care · 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 (snow, strength, it, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cold | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 cold | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cold | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cold | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 cold | advmod |
| 12 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 12 cold | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 snowing | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 snowing | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 snowing | aux |
| 17 | snowing | snow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 freezing | cc |
| 19 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 snowing | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 freezing | punct |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 freezing | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bed | amod |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 take | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 30 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | snow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | strength | cold, outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | snow | present · progressive | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 4 | freeze | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stay | infinitive | your warm bed | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location | |||||
| 6 | take | future | I | care | of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of you=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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