Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 100
It was the bird's heart; he was not really dead, only benumbed with the cold, and the warmth had restored him to life.
Who acts: breast, cockchafer · What happens: be, not be, benumb, restore · To what, where: heart, warmth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breast, cockchafer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heart | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 bird | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 dead | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dead | advmod |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 dead | advmod |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 benumbed | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 benumbed | advmod |
| 15 | benumbed | benumb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dead | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 cold | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cold | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 benumbed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 restored | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 restored | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 warmth | det |
| 22 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 restored | aux |
| 24 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 benumbed | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 restored | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 restored | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | breast | bird's heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | cockchafer | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | benumb | participle | cockchafer not said here | with the cold | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | restore | past · perfect · passive | the warmth | to life | tree rules |
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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