The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 16
With these words she breathed on the window, and her breath froze on the pane.
Who acts: way, breath · What happens: breathe, freeze · To what, where: window, pane
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (way, breath), 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 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 breathed | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 breathed | nsubj |
| 5 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breathed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 froze | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 froze | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breath | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 froze | nsubj |
| 13 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breathed | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 pane | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pane | det |
| 16 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 froze | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 breathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | past | way | the window | with this words | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on window=Destination | |||
| 2 | freeze | past | way's breath | the pane | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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