The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 20

As by this time evening had already fallen he took the child and opened its veins, and smeared the blood over the wounds of the sick man, and the look of death departed from him, and he grew strong and rosy once more.

Who acts: way · What happens: fall, take, open, smear, depart, grow · To what, where: child, veins, blood, wounds, look, sick man

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 (way), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	8 fallen	mark
2	by	by	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 evening	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 evening	compound
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fallen	obl:unmarked
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fallen	aux
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 fallen	advmod
8	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 took	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 opened	cc
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 veins	nmod:poss
16	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 opened	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 smeared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 smeared	cc
19	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 blood	det
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smeared	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 wounds	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wounds	det
24	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 smeared	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 man	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wounds	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 departed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 departed	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 look	det
32	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 departed	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 death	case
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 look	nmod
35	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 took	conj
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 departed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 grew	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 grew	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 grew	nsubj
41	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
42	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 grew	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rosy	cc
44	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 strong	conj
45	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	46 more	advmod
46	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 strong	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	way not said here				evening		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	way		the child				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
3	open	past	way not said here	horror's veins					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vein=Theme
4	smear	past	way not said here	the blood		the wounds of the sick man			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme over wound=Destination
5	depart	participle · passive		the look of death				from way	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location
6	grow	past	way					strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wound			the sick man					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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