The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 135
He did not lose a moment in pricking the baby’s finger till the blood ran, and he brushed it on the wrists of the stone figure, which shuddered all over and split with a loud noise in seven parts and there was the faithful servant alive and well.
Who acts: miller, moment, blood, stone figure · What happens: not lose, prick, run, brush, shudder, split · To what, where: finger, blood, wrists
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 (miller, moment, blood, stone figure), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lose | advmod |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 pricking | mark |
| 8 | pricking | prick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 moment | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 baby | det |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 baby | case |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pricking | obj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 ran | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blood | det |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pricking | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brushed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brushed | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brushed | nsubj |
| 20 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brushed | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 wrists | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wrists | det |
| 24 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brushed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 figure | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 figure | det |
| 27 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 figure | compound |
| 28 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wrists | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shuddered | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 shuddered | nsubj |
| 31 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 figure | acl:relcl |
| 32 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 over | advmod |
| 33 | over | over | ADV | _ | 31 shuddered | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 split | cc |
| 35 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lose | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 noise | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 noise | det |
| 38 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 noise | amod |
| 39 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 split | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 parts | case |
| 41 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 parts | nummod |
| 42 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 noise | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 was | cc |
| 44 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 45 was | expl |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 alive | cop |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 servant | det |
| 47 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 servant | amod |
| 48 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 was | nsubj |
| 49 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lose | parataxis |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 well | cc |
| 51 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 alive | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | past · do-support | miller | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prick | gerund | a moment not said here | the baby's finger | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the blood | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | brush | past | miller | blood | the wrists of the stone figure | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on wrist=Destination | |||
| 5 | shudder | past | the stone figure | over property | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | split | infinitive | miller not said here | with a loud noise in seven parts | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | is | past | alive property | tree rules |
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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