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title: Colder and colder it grew; and, trembling, quivering, his lips blue,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Colder and colder it grew; and, trembling, quivering, his lips blue, his teeth chattering, Thunder Maker staggered to a bed and fell upon it. Who acts: edge, teeth, Thunder. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 130

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Colder and colder it grew; and, trembling, quivering, his lips blue, his teeth chattering, Thunder Maker staggered to a bed and fell upon it.

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**Who acts:** edge, teeth, Thunder · **What happens:** grow, tremble, quiver, chatter, stagger, fall · **To what, where:** lips, bed, edge

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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: who acts (edge, teeth, Thunder), 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:pg66596:12:130
# text = Colder and colder it grew; and, trembling, quivering, his lips blue, his teeth chattering, Thunder Maker staggered to a bed and fell upon it.
1	Colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	quivering	quiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Maker	Maker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | edge |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | edge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **quiver** | gerund | edge *not said here* | Maker's lips |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **chatter** | gerund | Maker's teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stagger** | past | Thunder |  |  | a bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination |
| 6 | **fall** | past | Thunder *not said here* |  |  | edge |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=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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