Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 2

The cold was so intense that she could see her own breath, which came like smoke out of her mouth.

Who acts: cold, Gerda, own breath · What happens: be, see, come · To what, where: own breath, mouth

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold, Gerda, own breath), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 intense	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 intense	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 intense	advmod
5	intense	intense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 intense	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 breath	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 breath	amod
12	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 breath	acl:relcl
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 smoke	case
17	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 mouth	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mouth	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mouth	nmod:poss
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 intense	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cold			intense property	tree rules
2	see	could	Gerda	Gerda's own breath			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus
3	come	past	Gerda's own breath		Gerda's mouth	like smoke	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location

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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