The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 52
Then as suddenly it stopped, and, behold! the water was ice, which held the animals firmly in its grasp.
Who acts: rain, water, ice · What happens: stop, be, hold, grasp · To what, where: ice, animals, grasp
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, water, ice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 stopped | advmod |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 stopped | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 behold | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 5 stopped | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 ice | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ice | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ice | cop |
| 14 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 held | nsubj |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ice | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 animals | det |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 held | obj |
| 20 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 17 held | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 grasp | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 grasp | nmod:poss |
| 23 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | rain | then | suddenly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the water | ice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | ice | the animals | rain's grasp | firmly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme in grasp=Location | ||
| 4 | grasp | rain | nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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