Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 56
Lean as a skeleton, trembling with cold, and hunger, the old man was clinging with all his thoughts to his money.
Who acts: old man, footman · What happens: tremble, cling, think · To what, where: hunger
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, footman), 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 | Lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 skeleton | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 skeleton | det |
| 4 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lean | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trembling | punct |
| 6 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Lean | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cold | case |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trembling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunger | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hunger | cc |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lean | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clinging | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clinging | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 clinging | aux |
| 17 | clinging | cling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hunger | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 thoughts | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 thoughts | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 21 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 clinging | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 money | nmod:poss |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clinging | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | with cold | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cling | past · progressive | the old man | hunger not said here | with footman's thoughts; to footman's money | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunger=Theme | |||
| 3 | think | footman | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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