Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 56

Good gracious!" he sighed, "I must have a tendency to softening of the brain, and here it is so exceedingly hot that the blood is rushing to my head."

Who acts: rain, I, Good gracious, blood · What happens: sigh, have, be, rush, soften · To what, where: tendency, brain

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 (rain, I, Good gracious, 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gracious	amod
2	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hot	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 gracious	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 gracious	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sighed	nsubj
6	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gracious	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sighed	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tendency	det
13	tendency	tendency	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 softening	case
15	softening	softening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tendency	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 brain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brain	det
18	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 softening	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 here	cc
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sighed	ccomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 here	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hot	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 hot	advmod
25	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	26 hot	advmod
26	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 rushing	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 blood	det
29	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rushing	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 rushing	aux
31	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 hot	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 head	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rushing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 hot	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sigh in a quote	past	rain			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	must	I	a tendency	to softening of the brain	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendency=Patient
3	is	present	Good gracious		exceedingly, hot property	tree rules
4	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
5	soften			the brain		nom softening «process transitive»: of=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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