Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 41
Then how he shivered, and crept down stairs again to his warm corner, where it felt home-like and comfortable.
Who acts: light, creature · What happens: shiver, creep down, feel · To what, where: stairs
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 (light, creature), 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 shivered | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 shivered | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shivered | nsubj |
| 4 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crept | cc |
| 7 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shivered | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 crept | compound:prt |
| 9 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crept | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 crept | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 corner | nmod:poss |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 corner | amod |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crept | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 felt | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 corner | acl:relcl |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 like | advmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 home | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 comfortable | cc |
| 23 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 like | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | past | light | then | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | creep down | past | light not said here | stairs | again | to light's warm corner | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stair=Theme | ||
| 3 | feel | past | creature | like property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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