Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 12
He felt a burning thirst, his head was hot, and his limbs trembled with cold.
Who acts: rain, head, limbs · What happens: feel, burn, be, tremble · To what, where: burning thirst
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, head, limbs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thirst | det |
| 4 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 thirst | amod |
| 5 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hot | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hot | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hot | cop |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trembled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trembled | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trembled | nsubj |
| 15 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cold | case |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trembled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | rain | a burning thirst | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | rain's head | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tremble | past | rain's limbs | with cold | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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