Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 149
"But it is so cold here, and freezes sometimes."
Who acts: stalk · What happens: be, freeze
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stalk), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 cold | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cold | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 cold | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 freezes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 freezes | cc |
| 10 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cold | conj |
| 11 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 freezes | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | stalk | here | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | freeze in a quote | present | stalk not said here | sometimes property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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: «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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