The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 3

In an instant his head had swollen to several times its usual size, and his neck seemed very hot and heavy; and, somehow, his hands became paws, and his skin grew hairy and yellow.

Who acts: neck, hands, skin · What happens: swell, seem, become, grow · To what, where: head, paws

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neck, hands, skin), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swollen	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swollen	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swollen	aux
7	swollen	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 times	case
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 times	amod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swollen	obl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 size	nmod:poss
12	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 size	amod
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 times	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neck	nmod:poss
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swollen	conj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 hot	advmod
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heavy	cc
22	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hot	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 became	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 and	punct
26	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	30 became	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swollen	parataxis
31	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 became	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grew	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 grew	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 skin	nmod:poss
35	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grew	nsubj
36	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 became	conj
37	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grew	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 yellow	cc
39	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hairy	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swollen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	swell	past · perfect · passive		boy's head	time	in a instant	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent in instant=Attribute
2	seem	past	boy's neck			hot property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	boy's hands	paws		somehow property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	grow	past	boy's skin			hairy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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