Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 78
The kiss was colder than ice; it went quite through to his heart, which was already almost a lump of ice; he felt as if he were going to die, but only for a moment; he soon seemed quite well again, and did not notice the cold around him.
Who acts: kiss, heart, fur · What happens: be, go, feel, die, seem, not notice · To what, where: heart, lump, cold
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kiss, heart, fur), 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 | 2 kiss | det |
| 2 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 colder | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 colder | cop |
| 4 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 colder | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 colder | parataxis |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 through | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lump | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lump | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lump | cop |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 21 lump | advmod |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 lump | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lump | det |
| 21 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heart | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ice | case |
| 23 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lump | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 going | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 going | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 going | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 going | aux |
| 31 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 felt | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 die | mark |
| 33 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 going | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 moment | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 moment | cc |
| 36 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 moment | advmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 moment | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 moment | det |
| 39 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 seemed | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 seemed | nsubj |
| 42 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 seemed | advmod |
| 43 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 44 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 45 well | advmod |
| 45 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 again | advmod |
| 46 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 seemed | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 notice | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 notice | cc |
| 49 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 notice | aux |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 notice | advmod |
| 51 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 seemed | xcomp |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 cold | det |
| 53 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 notice | obj |
| 54 | around | around | ADP | _ | 55 him | case |
| 55 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 notice | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 colder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the kiss | than ice; cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | kiss | fur's heart | through property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | fur's heart | a lump | of ice; almost property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | feel | past | fur | moment | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | fur | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | die | to-infinitive | fur not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | seem | past | fur | again | soon property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 8 | not notice | past · do-support | fur not said here | the cold | around fur | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus |
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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