Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 17
Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lump of ice.
Who acts: persons, bit, heart · What happens: get, make, become · To what, where: splinter, heart, one shudder
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persons, bit, heart), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 persons | det |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 splinter | det |
| 6 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 splinter | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 made | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 shudder | nummod |
| 16 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 became | mark |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 lump | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lump | det |
| 24 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ice | case |
| 26 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lump | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | some persons | a splinter | persons's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splinter=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past | bit | one shudder | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material shudder=Product | |||
| 3 | become | past | persons's heart | like a lump of ice | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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