The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 31

And scarcely had he done this, before the blood began to circulate in her veins, then it mounted and brought colour back to her white face.

Who acts: power, blood · What happens: have, do, begin, circulate, mount, bring back · To what, where: this, veins, colour, white face

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, blood), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 done	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 began	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blood	det
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 circulate	mark
13	circulate	circulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 veins	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 veins	nmod:poss
16	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 circulate	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mounted	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 mounted	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 mounted	nsubj
20	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 brought	cc
22	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mounted	conj
23	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	22 brought	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 face	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 face	amod
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past					scarcely property	tree rules
2	do	participle	power	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
3	begin	past	the blood					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	circulate	to-infinitive	the blood not said here		woman's veins			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vein=Location
5	mount	past	blood			then		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location
6	bring back	past	blood not said here	colour	woman's white face			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme to face=Destination

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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