Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 76

And the blood rose to the head of the excited criminal; he threw himself upon his comrade, and beat him with his clenched fist in the face.

Who acts: blood, dog · What happens: rise, throw, beat, clench · To what, where: head, dog, comrade

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, dog), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 rose	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blood	det
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 criminal	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 criminal	det
10	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 criminal	amod
11	criminal	criminal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 threw	obj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 comrade	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 comrade	nmod:poss
18	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beat	cc
21	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rose	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beat	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 fist	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fist	nmod:poss
25	clenched	clench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fist	amod
26	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beat	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 face	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 face	det
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fist	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the blood		the head of the excited criminal		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to head=Initial_Location
2	throw	past	dog	dog	dog's comrade		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon comrade=Destination
3	beat	infinitive	the blood not said here	dog		with dog's clenched fist in the face	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with fist=Instrument
4	clench	participle					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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