Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 98

Gerda was so chilled that she could not speak.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: chill, not speak · To what, where: Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda), 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	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chilled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chilled	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 chilled	advmod
4	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 speak	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 speak	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 speak	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 speak	advmod
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chilled	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chilled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · passive		Gerda					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	not speak speech: other	could	Gerda						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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