Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 40

It was very cold; but the little creature did not really feel it, till the light in the garret went out, and the tones of music died away.

Who acts: kind, little creature, light, tones · What happens: be, not feel, go out, die away, intonate · To what, where: kind, music

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, little creature, light, tones), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 feel	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 creature	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 creature	amod
9	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feel	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 feel	advmod
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 feel	advmod
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cold	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feel	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 went	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 garret	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 garret	det
21	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 light	nmod
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 went	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 died	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 died	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tones	det
27	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 died	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 music	case
29	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tones	nmod
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 died	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	kind		cold property	tree rules
2	not feel	past · do-support	the little creature	kind		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	go out	past	the light in the garret			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die away	past	the tones of music		away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	intonate			music		nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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