The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 90

But it was no use, neither words nor blows would get the secret out of the boy; and when her arm was quite tired and she had to leave off, the child, sore and aching, ran into the garden and knelt weeping beside his little sword.

Who acts: dream, words, arm, mother · What happens: be, get, have, leave off, ache, run · To what, where: use, secret, child, garden, little sword

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, words, arm, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 use	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
7	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 get	cc:preconj
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	nsubj
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 blows	cc
10	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 words	conj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 secret	det
14	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 boy	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 boy	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tired	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tired	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 tired	mark
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arm	nmod:poss
23	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tired	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tired	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 tired	advmod
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tired	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 leave	mark
31	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 leave	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 child	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 child	det
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leave	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sore	punct
37	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 child	amod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 aching	cc
39	aching	ache	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 sore	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ran	punct
41	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 leave	advcl
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 garden	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 garden	det
44	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ran	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 knelt	cc
46	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 ran	conj
47	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 knelt	xcomp
48	beside	beside	ADP	_	51 sword	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 sword	nmod:poss
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 sword	amod
51	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 weeping	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dream	no use			tree rules
2	get	would	words nor blows	the secret		out the boy	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
3	is	past	mother's arm			tired property	tree rules
4	have	past	mother				tree rules
5	leave off	to-infinitive	mother not said here	the child			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ache	gerund	mother not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	run	past	mother not said here			into the garden result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result
8	kneel	past	mother not said here				tree rules
9	weep	gerund	mother not said here		Boy's little sword		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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