Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 248
Then he felt a coldness, like death, creeping over him; his eyes closed, and he became insensible.
Who acts: prince · What happens: feel, creep, close, become · To what, where: coldness, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 felt | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coldness | det |
| 5 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 death | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coldness | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 creeping | punct |
| 10 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 felt | advcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 creeping | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 felt | obl |
| 16 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 eyes | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 21 | insensible | insensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | prince | a coldness and death | then | prince's eyes obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coldness=Theme | ||
| 2 | creep | gerund | prince not said here | over prince | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | close | participle | prince's eyes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | become | past | prince | insensible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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