Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 128

"Man!" cried the General, and his brain seemed to be boiling. "

Who acts: Man, brain · What happens: cry, seem, boil · To what, where: General

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, brain), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
2	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 General	det
7	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brain	nmod:poss
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	15 boiling	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 boiling	aux
15	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 seemed	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Man	the General	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Topic
2	seem	past	man's brain		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	boil	to-infinitive · progressive	man's brain not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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