Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 35

But he sat quite still, benumbed and cold.

Who acts: gate · What happens: sit, benumb

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 (gate), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 sat	cc
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 still	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 benumbed	punct
7	benumbed	benumb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cold	cc
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 benumbed	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	gate				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	benumb	participle	gate not said here						tree rules

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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