The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 52

“Nothing but your little finger, your Majesty,” was his answer; and the king cut off his little finger and gave it to Paperarello, who bowed and hid it in his surcoat.

Who acts: Nothing, king, Paperarello · What happens: be, cut off, give, bow, hide · To what, where: answer, little finger, finger, Paperarello, surcoat

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, king, Paperarello), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 answer	nsubj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 finger	cc
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 finger	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 finger	amod
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Nothing	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Majesty	punct
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Majesty	nmod:poss
9	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Nothing	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 answer	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 answer	nmod:poss
14	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	nsubj
19	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 answer	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 cut	compound:prt
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 finger	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 finger	amod
23	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Paperarello	case
28	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bowed	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 bowed	nsubj
31	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Paperarello	acl:relcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hid	cc
33	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bowed	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hid	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 surcoat	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 surcoat	nmod:poss
37	surcoat	surcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hid	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Nothing	knight's answer			tree rules
2	cut off	past	the king	knight's little finger			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector finger=Eventuality
3	give	past	the king not said here	finger	Paperarello		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to paperarello=Recipient
4	bow	past	Paperarello				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide	past	Paperarello not said here	finger		knight's surcoat	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in surcoat=Location

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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