The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 105
Take three drops of blood from the child’s little finger, rub them on your servant’s wrists with a blade of grass and he will return to life.”
Who acts: you, servant · What happens: take, rub, return · To what, where: three drops, little finger, drops
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, servant), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 drops | nummod |
| 3 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 blood | case |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drops | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 finger | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 child | case |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 finger | amod |
| 11 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rub | punct |
| 13 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rub | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 wrists | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 servant | nmod:poss |
| 17 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wrists | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 servant | case |
| 19 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rub | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 blade | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 blade | det |
| 22 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rub | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 grass | case |
| 24 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blade | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 return | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 return | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 return | aux |
| 28 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 return | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | three drops of blood | the child's little finger | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme from finger=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rub | infinitive | you not said here | drops = drop | with a blade of grass; on your servant's wrists | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer on wrist=Theme with blade=Instrument | |||
| 3 | return | future | servant | to life result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to life=Result |
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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