Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 26

I am freezing to death; I shall become a lump of ice!”

Who acts: I · What happens: freeze, become · To what, where: lump

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 freezing	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freezing	aux
3	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freezing	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 become	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 become	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 become	aux
9	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freezing	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lump	det
11	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 become	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 ice	case
13	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lump	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 freezing	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 freezing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · progressive	I					to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	become	shall	I	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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