Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 28
I am freezing to death here, and turning to ice."
Who acts: I · What happens: freeze, turn · To what, where: ice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. 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 freezing | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 freezing | aux |
| 3 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freezing | obl |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 freezing | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turning | cc |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 freezing | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ice | case |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 freezing | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 freezing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present · progressive | I | here | to death | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | I not said here | ice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ice=Trajectory |
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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