Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 59

She felt dreadfully cold, for her clothes were torn, and she was herself so frail and delicate, that poor little Tiny was nearly frozen to death.

Who acts: tree · What happens: feel, tear, be, freeze · To what, where: clothes, that

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 (tree), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 torn	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 torn	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 clothes	nmod:poss
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 torn	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 torn	aux:pass
10	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 frail	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 frail	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 frail	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 frail	cop
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 frail	nsubj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 frail	advmod
17	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 torn	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 delicate	cc
19	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 frail	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 frozen	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 frozen	nsubj:pass
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Tiny	amod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Tiny	amod
24	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 frozen	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 frozen	aux:pass
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	27 frozen	advmod
27	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 frozen	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	tree		cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	tear	past · passive		tree's clothes		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	tree		frail property	tree rules
4	be		tree not said here			tree rules
5	freeze	past · passive		that	to death; nearly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=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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