---
title: A charm was in the words, The enchantment of the frost, And so the g… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: A charm was in the words, The enchantment of the frost, And so the giant talked on, Freezing with every word, Until Kulóskap fell Into a sleep like death. Who acts: charm, Until. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/30/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/) / 30

# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 30

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A charm was in the words, The enchantment of the frost, And so the giant talked on, Freezing with every word, Until Kulóskap fell Into a sleep like death.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** charm, Until · **What happens:** be, talk on, freeze, fall, enchant · **To what, where:** words, giant, word, sleep, frost

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charm, Until), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:13:30
# text = A charm was in the words, The enchantment of the frost, And so the giant talked on, Freezing with every word, Until Kulóskap fell Into a sleep like death.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Until	Until	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a charm |  |  | the words |  | the enchantment of the frost *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk on** | participle | a charm *not said here* | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **freeze** | gerund | a charm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with every word | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with word=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Until | every word *not said here* |  | a sleep like death |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient word=Result |
| 5 | **enchant** |  |  | the frost |  |  |  |  | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/29/)
- next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/31/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/)