Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 3

He died in the coldness of the night: it was his farewell song that I heard.

Who acts: nightingale, coldness, I · What happens: die, be, hear · To what, where: farewell song

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingale, coldness, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 coldness	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coldness	det
5	coldness	coldness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coldness	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 song	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 song	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 song	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 song	nmod:poss
13	farewell	farewell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 song	amod
14	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 heard	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 song	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	nightingale		in the coldness of the night	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in coldness=Attribute
2	is a	past	coldness	nightingale's farewell song		tree rules
3	hear	past	I	nightingale's farewell song		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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