The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 17
“This evening you must take your child, and open her veins, and smear the wounds of your friend with her blood.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, open, smear, wound · To what, where: child, veins, wounds, friend
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 child | nmod:poss |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 open | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 open | cc |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 veins | nmod:poss |
| 13 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smear | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smear | cc |
| 16 | smear | smear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wounds | det |
| 18 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 smear | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wounds | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 blood | nmod:poss |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 friend | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | must | you | your child | evening | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | |||
| 2 | open in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | child's veins | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vein=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smear in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the wounds of your friend with child's blood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wound=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wound in a quote | your friend with child's blood | nom wound «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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