Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 111
The counsellor felt a cold shiver run all over him. "
Who acts: counsellor, cold shiver · What happens: feel, run
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsellor, cold shiver), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 counsellor | det |
| 2 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shiver | det |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shiver | amod |
| 6 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | nsubj |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | ccomp |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 him | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 run | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the counsellor | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | present | a cold shiver | over Counsellor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory |
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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