The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 50
With a deep growl that froze the blood, he drew himself up, and prepared to spring.
Who acts: that, wolf · What happens: freeze, draw up, prepare · To what, where: blood, wolf
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, wolf), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 growl | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 growl | det |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 growl | amod |
| 4 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 froze | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 froze | nsubj |
| 6 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 blood | det |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 froze | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 froze | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 drew | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 drew | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prepared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prepared | cc |
| 16 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 froze | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 spring | case |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prepared | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 froze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past | that | the blood | with a deep growl | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent blood=Patient with growl=Instrument | |||
| 2 | draw up | past | wolf | wolf | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | prepare | participle | that not said here | spring | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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