Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 1
"It is so delightfully cold," said the Snow Man, "that it makes my whole body crackle.
Who acts: It, cold, my · What happens: be, say, make, crackle · To what, where: whole body crackle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, cold, my), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cold | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 5 | delightfully | delightfully | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Man | det |
| 11 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Man | compound |
| 12 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 makes | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 crackle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crackle | amod |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crackle | compound |
| 21 | crackle | crackle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | It | cold, delightfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | cold | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | it | my whole body crackle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material crackle=Product | ||||
| 4 | crackle in a quote | my | nom crackle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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