The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 226
And if she was cold she crept under his warm feathers, only keeping her little head out to admire all the beautiful things in the world beneath.
Who acts: snow · What happens: be, creep, keep, admire · To what, where: warm feathers, little head, beautiful things, world
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crept | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 cold | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crept | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 crept | nsubj |
| 7 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 feathers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feathers | amod |
| 11 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeping | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 keeping | advmod |
| 14 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 crept | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 head | amod |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeping | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 keeping | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 admire | mark |
| 20 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 keeping | advcl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 things | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 things | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 admire | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 things | nmod |
| 28 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 20 admire | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | snow | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | snow | mole's warm feathers | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under feather=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | snow not said here | snow's little head | out property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 4 | admire | to-infinitive | snow not said here | all beautiful things | the world | beneath property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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