Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 196
The cold hand of death had already touched the heart of Christina.
What happens: touch · To what, where: cold hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 hand | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hand | amod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | aux |
| 7 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 touched | advmod |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Christina | case |
| 12 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heart | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect · passive | the cold hand of death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer heart=Result |
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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