Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 23
Ha," he cried, "the blood is rushing to my head, and I shall go mad.
Who acts: creature, blood, I · What happens: cry, rush, go
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, blood, I), 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 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ha | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushing | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushing | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blood | det |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rushing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rushing | aux |
| 11 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rushing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 20 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 go | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | creature | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rush | present · progressive | the blood | to my head result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to head=Result | ||||
| 3 | go | shall | I | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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