The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 3

Now, when the man heard this, a cold shiver ran through his body, and all at once he knew that he was as well as he had ever been in his life.

Who acts: man, cold shiver · What happens: hear, run, know, be · To what, where: this, body, life

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, cold shiver), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ran	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ran	advcl
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shiver	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shiver	amod
11	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 body	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 body	nmod:poss
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knew	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 knew	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 all	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ran	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 life	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 life	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 life	cop
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 life	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 life	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 life	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 life	aux
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 life	advmod
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 life	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 life	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 life	nmod:poss
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knew	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the man	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	run	past	a cold shiver		shiver's body	now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through body=Trajectory
3	know	past	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	man		shiver's life	ever	well property	tree rules

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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