Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 138
Then his hand trembled in mine, and he became pale as a corpse.
Who acts: hand, Aphtanides · What happens: tremble, become
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, Aphtanides), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 trembled | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trembled | nsubj |
| 4 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mine | case |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 trembled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trembled | conj |
| 11 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 corpse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corpse | det |
| 14 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | Aphtanides's hand | then | in mine | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in my=Location | |||
| 2 | become | past | Aphtanides | as a corpse; pale property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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