The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 92
So he fastened it round his waist, and instantly a glow of strength seemed to run through his veins.
Who acts: heart, glow, strength · What happens: fasten, seem, run, glow · To what, where: truth, veins
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, glow, strength), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fastened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fastened | nsubj |
| 3 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fastened | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 waist | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 waist | nmod:poss |
| 7 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | cc |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 15 seemed | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 glow | det |
| 12 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 strength | case |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glow | nmod |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fastened | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 run | mark |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 veins | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 veins | nmod:poss |
| 20 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 run | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | heart | truth | round heart's waist | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a glow of strength | instantly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | a glow of strength not said here | heart's veins | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through vein=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | glow | strength | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/14/92/