The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 4

She took out a pair of scissors and cut a small piece out of the boy’s coat-sleeve which was hanging on the wall, and then crept silently from the room.

Who acts: witch, coat sleeve · What happens: take out, cut, hang, creep · To what, where: pair, small piece, coat sleeve, wall, room

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, coat sleeve), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:674): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pair	det
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 scissors	case
7	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pair	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 piece	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 piece	amod
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	20 sleeve	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 out	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sleeve	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 boy	case
18	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sleeve	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 coat	punct
20	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 hanging	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hanging	aux
23	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sleeve	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 wall	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wall	det
26	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hanging	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 crept	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 crept	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 crept	advmod
30	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
31	silently	silently	ADV	_	30 crept	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 room	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 room	det
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crept	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	witch	a pair of scissors				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
2	cut	past	witch not said here	a small piece	the boy's coat sleeve			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product
3	hang	past · progressive	the boy's coat sleeve		the wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location
4	creep	past	witch not said here		the room	then	silently property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from room=Trajectory

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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