The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 17

At the third blow she gave the flames divided, and Eisenkopf, who had been watching and hoping for a chance of this kind, ran down the opening and stood before her.

Who acts: maiden, flames, Eisenkopf, kind · What happens: give, divide, watch, hope, run down, stand · To what, where: third blow, opening

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, flames, Eisenkopf, kind), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 blow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blow	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 blow	amod
4	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flames	det
8	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 divided	nsubj
9	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ran	cc
12	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ran	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 watching	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 watching	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 watching	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 watching	aux
17	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 Eisenkopf	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hoping	cc
19	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 watching	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 chance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 chance	det
22	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hoping	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 kind	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 kind	det
25	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chance	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Eisenkopf	punct
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	conj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 ran	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 opening	det
30	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ran	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stood	cc
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ran	conj
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stood	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	maiden		the third blow			tree rules
2	divide	past	the flames					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	watch	past · perfect · progressive	Eisenkopf					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	hope	gerund	Eisenkopf not said here				for a chance of this kind	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for chance=Theme
5	run down	past	Eisenkopf	the opening				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opening=Trajectory
6	stand	past	Eisenkopf not said here			before maiden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
7	chance		this kind					nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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