Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 14

He looked exactly like a little angel, but he was so pale, and his whole body trembled with cold.

Who acts: boy, whole body · What happens: look, be, tremble

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, whole body), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 angel	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 angel	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 angel	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 angel	amod
7	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pale	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 pale	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pale	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pale	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 pale	advmod
13	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trembled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trembled	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 body	nmod:poss
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 body	amod
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trembled	nsubj
19	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 looked	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 cold	case
21	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trembled	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	past	boy	like a little angel	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	boy	pale property	tree rules
3	tremble	participle	boy's whole body	with cold	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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