Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 60

All at once an icy cold rushed through the great hall, and the blind mother could feel that it was Death that came.

Who acts: blind mother, hall, Death · What happens: rush, feel, be, come · To what, where: icy cold, great hall, Death

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 (blind mother, hall, Death), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 cold	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 cold	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cold	det
5	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cold	amod
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cold	acl
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hall	amod
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rushed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feel	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feel	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mother	det
15	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mother	amod
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feel	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 feel	aux
18	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cold	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 Death	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 Death	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Death	cop
22	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feel	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Death	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rush	participle		a icy cold not said here	the great hall	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory
2	feel	could	the blind mother			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	hall	Death		tree rules
4	come	past	Death			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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