Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 49
Ugh! the cold makes you shiver, little ones, does it not?"
Who acts: cold · What happens: make, not do · To what, where: shiver, you, cold
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold), 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 | Ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 5 makes | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ugh | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cold | det |
| 4 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ones | punct |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shiver | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 does | punct |
| 12 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 does | obj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 does | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the cold | shiver and little ones | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary shiver=Product | |||
| 2 | not do | present | the cold not said here | cold | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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