The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 103
With every step they went into the kingdom of Mittwoch, the air grew colder and more icy, till even the marrow in their bones was frozen.
Who acts: midges, air · What happens: go, grow, freeze · To what, where: kingdom, marrow
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midges, air), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 step | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 step | det |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kingdom | det |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Mittwoch | case |
| 10 | Mittwoch | Mittwoch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kingdom | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 icy | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 icy | advmod |
| 18 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 colder | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 frozen | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 frozen | mark |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 marrow | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 marrow | det |
| 23 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bones | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bones | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 marrow | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 frozen | aux:pass |
| 28 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 grew | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | midges = midge | the kingdom of Mittwoch | with every step | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the air | cold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | freeze | past · passive | the marrow in midges's bones | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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