Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 71
There rushed through the hothouse a chill of icy coldness, and the blind mother felt that Death had arrived.
Who acts: blind mother, Death · What happens: rush, feel, arrive · To what, where: hothouse
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 (blind mother, Death), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 rushed | expl |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 hothouse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hothouse | det |
| 5 | hothouse | hothouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chill | det |
| 7 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hothouse | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 coldness | case |
| 9 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coldness | amod |
| 10 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chill | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 felt | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 14 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mother | amod |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 arrived | mark |
| 18 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 arrived | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 arrived | aux |
| 20 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 felt | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle | the hothouse; there | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hothouse=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | the blind mother | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past · perfect | Death | 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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