Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 143

He became exhausted at last, and lay still and helpless, frozen fast in the ice.

Who acts: ice · What happens: become, exhaust, lay, freeze · To what, where: last, ice

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ice), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 became	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 exhausted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lay	cc
8	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 became	conj
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 lay	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 helpless	cc
11	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 still	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 frozen	punct
13	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lay	conj
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 frozen	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 ice	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ice	det
17	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frozen	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	ice				tree rules
2	exhaust	participle	ice not said here	last			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	lay	infinitive	ice not said here		still		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	freeze	participle	ice not said here	the ice		fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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