Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 71

The Snow Man felt quite a strange sensation come over him; it was very odd, he knew not what it meant, and he could not account for it.

Who acts: Snow Man, strange sensation, sensation, Man · What happens: feel, come, be, not know, mean, not account

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 (Snow Man, strange sensation, sensation, Man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Man	compound
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sensation	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sensation	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sensation	amod
8	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	parataxis
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 odd	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 odd	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 odd	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 odd	advmod
16	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	parataxis
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 knew	advmod
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 knew	obj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 meant	nsubj
23	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 account	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 account	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 account	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 account	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 account	advmod
29	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knew	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 account	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the Snow Man		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	present	quite strange sensation	over Man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location
3	is	past	sensation	odd property	tree rules
4	not know	past	Man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	mean	past	sensation		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	not account	could	Man	for sensation	tree rules

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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