Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 10

His head ached, his back was stiff, and the blood had ceased to circulate, so that his feet were swelled and pinched by his boots.

Who acts: head, back · What happens: ache, be, cease, circulate, swell, pinch · To what, where: blood, feet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, back), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ached	nsubj
3	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stiff	punct
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stiff	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stiff	cop
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ached	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ceased	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ceased	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 blood	det
12	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ceased	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ceased	aux
14	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ached	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 circulate	mark
16	circulate	circulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ceased	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swelled	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 swelled	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swelled	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 swelled	aux:pass
23	swelled	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ceased	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pinched	cc
25	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 swelled	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 boots	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 boots	nmod:poss
28	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pinched	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ache	past	Switzerland's head			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Switzerland's back		stiff property	tree rules
3	cease	past · perfect · passive		the blood		tree rules
4	circulate	to-infinitive				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	swell	past · passive		Switzerland's feet		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent
6	pinch	participle			by Switzerland's boots	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent by boot=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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