The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 24
So, with his hair standing on end and his blood frozen in his veins, he crept forwards.
Who acts: hair, man · What happens: stand, freeze, creep · To what, where: end, blood, veins
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 18 crept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hair | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crept | obl |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hair | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blood | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 blood | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hair | conj |
| 12 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 blood | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 veins | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 veins | nmod:poss |
| 15 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 frozen | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hair | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 crept | nsubj |
| 18 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 18 crept | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | man's hair and man's blood not said here | on end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | ||||
| 2 | freeze | participle | man's blood not said here | man's veins | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | man | with man's hair and man's blood; forwards property | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hair=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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