Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 178
Others will feel a shuddering sensation to their very marrow, if a nail is scratched on a pane of glass.
Who acts: Others · What happens: feel, shudder, scratch · To what, where: shuddering sensation, nail, pane
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Others), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sensation | det |
| 5 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sensation | amod |
| 6 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 marrow | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 marrow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 marrow | advmod |
| 10 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scratched | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 scratched | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nail | det |
| 14 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scratched | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 scratched | aux:pass |
| 16 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feel | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 pane | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pane | det |
| 19 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scratched | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 glass | case |
| 21 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pane | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | future | Others | a shuddering sensation | to Others's marrow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Theme | |||
| 2 | shudder | gerund | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | scratch a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a nail | a pane of glass | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on pane=Destination |
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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