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title: Ah! it was colder than ice; it penetrated to his very heart, which w… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! it was colder than ice; it penetrated to his very heart, which was already almost a frozen lump; it seemed to him as if he were about to die--but a moment more and it was quite congenial to him, and he did not remark the cold that was around him. Who acts: forehead, heart, it, Prayer. A sentence
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 107

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Ah! it was colder than ice; it penetrated to his very heart, which was already almost a frozen lump; it seemed to him as if he were about to die--but a moment more and it was quite congenial to him, and he did not remark the cold that was around him.

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**Who acts:** forehead, heart, it, Prayer, that · **What happens:** be, penetrate, freeze, seem, die, not remark · **To what, where:** frozen lump, Prayer, cold

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forehead, heart, it, Prayer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:11:107
# text = Ah! it was colder than ice; it penetrated to his very heart, which was already almost a frozen lump; it seemed to him as if he were about to die--but a moment more and it was quite congenial to him, and he did not remark the cold that was around him.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	already	already	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	congenial	congenial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
52	remark	remark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
57	around	around	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | forehead |  |  |  |  | than ice; cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **penetrate** | past | forehead |  |  |  |  | to Prayer's heart and a frozen lump | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Prayer's heart and a frozen lump | a frozen lump |  |  |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seem** | past | it |  | Prayer |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | Prayer |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **die** | to-infinitive | Prayer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **is** | past | forehead |  | Prayer |  |  | congenial *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **not** **remark** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Prayer | the cold |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cold=Topic |
| 10 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | around cold | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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