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title: The kiss was colder than ice; it went quite through to his heart, wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The kiss was colder than ice; it went quite through to his heart, which was already almost a lump of ice; he felt as if he were going to die, but only for a moment; he soon seemed quite well again, and did not notice the cold around him. Who acts: kiss, heart, fur. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 78

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The kiss was colder than ice; it went quite through to his heart, which was already almost a lump of ice; he felt as if he were going to die, but only for a moment; he soon seemed quite well again, and did not notice the cold around him.

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**Who acts:** kiss, heart, fur · **What happens:** be, go, feel, die, seem, not notice · **To what, where:** heart, lump, cold

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kiss, heart, fur), 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:pg27200:171:78
# text = The kiss was colder than ice; it went quite through to his heart, which was already almost a lump of ice; he felt as if he were going to die, but only for a moment; he soon seemed quite well again, and did not notice the cold around him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	already	already	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
43	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
44	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
46	again	again	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	around	around	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the kiss |  |  |  |  | than ice; cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | kiss |  |  | fur's heart |  | through *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | fur's heart | a lump |  |  |  | of ice; almost *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | past | fur |  |  |  | moment |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | fur |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **die** | to-infinitive | fur *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **seem** | past | fur |  |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 8 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | fur *not said here* | the cold |  |  |  | around fur | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus |

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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:** «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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