Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 145
Superstition made her alternately shudder with cold or burn with the heat of fever.
Who acts: Superstition, fever · What happens: make, burn, heat · To what, where: Anne
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 (Superstition, fever), 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 | Superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | alternately | alternately | ADV | _ | 5 shudder | advmod |
| 5 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 cold | case |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shudder | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 burn | cc |
| 9 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 heat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heat | det |
| 12 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burn | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fever | case |
| 14 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heat | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Superstition | Anne | shudder with cold obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | |||
| 2 | burn | infinitive | Superstition not said here | with the heat of fever | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | heat | fever | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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