Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 44
His face went red as a sunset, and the veins swelled in his neck and his forehead.
Who acts: face, veins · What happens: go, swell
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, veins), 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 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 sunset | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sunset | det |
| 7 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swelled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swelled | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 veins | det |
| 11 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 swelled | nsubj |
| 12 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swelled | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 forehead | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 18 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 neck | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Mongan's face | sunset | red property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | swell | past | the veins | in Mongan's neck and Mongan's forehead | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in neck=Attribute |
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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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