Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 30

There he sat quite benumbed and motionless; one would have imagined he was frozen to death.

Who acts: skull · What happens: sit, benumb, imagine, freeze · To what, where: one, skull

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 (skull), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 benumbed	advmod
5	benumbed	benumb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 motionless	cc
7	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 benumbed	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 imagined	punct
9	one	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	12 imagined	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 imagined	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 imagined	aux
12	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 frozen	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 frozen	aux:pass
15	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 imagined	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 frozen	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	skull		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	benumb	participle	skull not said here				tree rules
3	imagine	would · perfect · passive		one			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	freeze	past · passive		skull		to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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