Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 9
But when the hound came near him, the Prince was startled to see that his lips and fangs were dripping with blood.
Who acts: hound, lips · What happens: come, startle, see, drip · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hound, lips), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 startled | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hound | det |
| 4 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 startled | advcl |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 startled | aux:pass |
| 12 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 startled | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 dripping | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dripping | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fangs | cc |
| 19 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lips | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dripping | aux |
| 21 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 see | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 blood | case |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dripping | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the hound | near Gellert | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location | ||||
| 2 | startle | past · passive | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | drip | past · progressive | Gellert's lips and fangs | with blood | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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