The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 56
‘And didn’t you find it very cold?’
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, find · To what, where: occasion
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 did | cc |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 cold | advmod |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 find | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | find | present | you | occasion | cold property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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