Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 196
I had saved them all; but I suppose I could not survive the cold and fright; so I came up here to the gates of paradise.
Who acts: I · What happens: save, suppose, not survive, come up · To what, where: People, cold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | aux |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 suppose | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 suppose | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 suppose | nsubj |
| 9 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | parataxis |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 survive | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 survive | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 survive | advmod |
| 13 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 suppose | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cold | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 survive | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fright | cc |
| 17 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cold | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 here | advmod |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 came | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 gates | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gates | det |
| 26 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 here | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 paradise | case |
| 28 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gates | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · perfect | I | People | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not survive | could | I | the cold and fright | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cold=Circumstance | ||||
| 4 | come up | past | I | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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