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title: It was the bird's heart; he was not really dead, only benumbed with… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 100

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It was the bird's heart; he was not really dead, only benumbed with the cold, and the warmth had restored him to life.

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**Who acts:** breast, cockchafer · **What happens:** be, not be, benumb, restore · **To what, where:** heart, warmth

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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.

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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:pg27200:79:100
# text = It was the bird's heart; he was not really dead, only benumbed with the cold, and the warmth had restored him to life.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	benumbed	benumb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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