Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 22

But he sat quite still, stiff and cold.

Who acts: Kay · What happens: sit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 sat	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 still	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stiff	punct
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cold	cc
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stiff	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Kay				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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