--- title: ‘Oh dear! oh dear! it’s cold enough to freeze a poor old body to dea… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Oh dear! oh dear! it’s cold enough to freeze a poor old body to death!’ and she shivered and shook again, and said, ‘For heaven’s sake give me leave to stay here and sit just inside the stable door.’ Who acts: girl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:9:169 # text = ‘Oh dear! oh dear! it’s cold enough to freeze a poor old body to death!’ and she shivered and shook again, and said, ‘For heaven’s sake give me leave to stay here and sit just inside the stable door.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 oh oh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 enough enough ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 freeze freeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 shivered shiver VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 For for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’s 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 37 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 42 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 45 just just ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 46 inside inside ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 stable stable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | to-infinitive | | a poor old body | | | | to death | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient body=Result | | 2 | **shiver** | past | girl | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **shake** | past | girl *not said here* | | | | again | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | | | me | | | for heaven's sake | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **sit** | present | | | | the stable door | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside door=Location | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/168/) - next →: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/170/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)