Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 30
As the sun set, an icy coldness filled all nature, not however of long duration.
Who acts: icy coldness · What happens: fill · To what, where: nature
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (icy coldness), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 set | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coldness | det |
| 7 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coldness | amod |
| 8 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | nsubj |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 nature | det |
| 11 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 duration | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 duration | advmod |
| 14 | however | however | ADV | _ | 17 duration | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 duration | case |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 duration | amod |
| 17 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nature | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | a icy coldness | all nature and long duration | as the sun set | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nature=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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