Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 231
At every step his cheeks glowed, and the blood rushed wildly through his veins. "
Who acts: cheeks, blood · What happens: glow, rush · To what, where: veins
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks, blood), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 step | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 step | det |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glowed | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glowed | nsubj |
| 6 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rushed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blood | det |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rushed | nsubj |
| 11 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glowed | conj |
| 12 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 11 rushed | advmod |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 veins | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 veins | nmod:poss |
| 15 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rushed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glowed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | past | prince's cheeks | at every step | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at step=Location | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | the blood | prince's veins | wildly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through vein=Trajectory |
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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