Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 50

And when at last he crept into bed, he would be so cold that his teeth chattered in his head.

Who acts: coal, teeth · What happens: creep, be, chatter · To what, where: last, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coal, teeth), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 crept	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 crept	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crept	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crept	nsubj
6	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cold	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 cold	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 cold	advmod
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crept	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 chattered	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 teeth	nmod:poss
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chattered	nsubj
18	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chattered	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	creep	past	coal	last	into bed	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
2	is	would	coal		cold property	tree rules
3	chatter	past	coal's teeth	coal's head		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location

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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