The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 58

‘We shall see about that,’ grumbled an old hag who sat by the wayside blowing her fingers to keep them warm.

Who acts: We, old hag, wayside · What happens: see, grumble, sit, blow, keep · To what, where: old hag, fingers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (We, old hag, wayside), 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	_	4 see	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 grumbled	ccomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
9	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hag	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hag	amod
12	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grumbled	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hag	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 wayside	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wayside	det
17	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 wayside	acl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fingers	nmod:poss
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 blowing	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 keep	mark
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 blowing	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keep	obj
24	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 keep	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	shall	We		about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	grumble speech: other	past		a old hag		tree rules
3	sit	past	a old hag		by the wayside	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location
4	blow	gerund	the wayside not said here	hag's fingers		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
5	keep	to-infinitive	the wayside not said here	fingers = finger	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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