Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 43

When John saw her, his face became as red as a drop of blood, and he could scarcely utter a word.

Who acts: John, face · What happens: see, become, utter · To what, where: mantle, word

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, 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 (John, face), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 red	advmod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 drop	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 drop	det
13	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 red	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 blood	case
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drop	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 utter	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 utter	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 utter	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 utter	aux
20	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	21 utter	advmod
21	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 became	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 word	det
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 utter	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	John	mantle		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	become	past	John's face		red property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	utter speech: other	could	face	a word	scarcely property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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