Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 53
The Ice Maiden, for she it was, kissed him, and her kiss sent a chill as of ice through his whole frame.
Who acts: Ice Maiden, kiss, death · What happens: be, send, kiss · To what, where: chill, whole frame
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 (Ice Maiden, kiss, death), 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 Maiden | det |
| 2 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Maiden | compound |
| 3 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maiden | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 she | case |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Maiden | nmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kissed | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 kissed | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
| 10 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kissed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sent | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 kissed | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 chill | det |
| 18 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 ice | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 frame | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 frame | nmod:poss |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 frame | amod |
| 25 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Ice Maiden for death | kiss property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | death's kiss | a chill | Maiden's whole frame | as ice | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chill=Theme | ||
| 3 | kiss | death | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=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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