Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 118

Fear came upon her as if a cold, clammy hand had been laid upon her heart, so that she almost fainted.

Who acts: Fear · What happens: come, lay, faint · To what, where: cold clammy hand, heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear), 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	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 laid	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 laid	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hand	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cold	punct
10	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laid	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 laid	aux:pass
14	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	advcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 heart	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fainted	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 fainted	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 fainted	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fainted	nsubj
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 fainted	advmod
23	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Fear			upon Anne	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
2	lay	past · perfect · passive		a cold clammy hand	Anne's heart		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon heart=Destination
3	faint	past	fear			almost property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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