The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 56
However, the girl would not listen, and went on pressing him, till at last he slapped her face so hard that her nose bled.
Who acts: girl, angel, nose · What happens: not listen, go, press, slap, bleed · To what, where: angel, face
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, angel, nose), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 listen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listen | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 listen | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 listen | advmod |
| 7 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listen | conj |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 pressing | mark |
| 12 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pressing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 last | punct |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listen | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slapped | nsubj |
| 19 | slapped | slap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 last | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slapped | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 hard | advmod |
| 23 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 slapped | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 bled | mark |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nose | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bled | nsubj |
| 27 | bled | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hard | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | would | the girl | till last | however property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | the girl not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | press | gerund | the girl not said here | angel | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 4 | slap | past | angel | girl's face | hard property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | |||
| 5 | bleed | past | girl's nose | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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