Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 15

He looked like a little angel, but was pale with cold, and trembling all over.

Who acts: water · What happens: look, be, tremble

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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	like	like	ADP	_	6 angel	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 angel	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 angel	amod
6	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pale	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 pale	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pale	cop
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 cold	case
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pale	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trembling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 trembling	cc
15	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 over	advmod
17	over	over	ADV	_	15 trembling	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	past	water	like a little angel	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	water not said here	with cold; pale property	tree rules
3	tremble	gerund	water not said here	over property	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: «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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