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title: Fine, sharp, stinging frost-flakes hissed in through the doorway and… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fine, sharp, stinging frost-flakes hissed in through the doorway and from under the edges of the lodge skins. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 129

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Fine, sharp, stinging frost-flakes hissed in through the doorway and from under the edges of the lodge skins.

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**What happens:** sting, hiss in · **To what, where:** Fine stinging frost flakes, doorway

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66596:12:129
# text = Fine, sharp, stinging frost-flakes hissed in through the doorway and from under the edges of the lodge skins.
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	amod	_	_
6	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	hissed	hiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hiss in** | participle |  | Fine stinging frost flakes *not said here* |  | the doorway and the edges of the lodge skins |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through doorway=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (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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