Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 61

The frame of the window was made of fine black ebony, and as she sat looking out upon the snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell upon it.

Who acts: queen, three drops · What happens: make, sit, look out, prick, fall · To what, where: frame, finger, snow

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, three drops), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frame	det
2	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frame	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 ebony	case
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ebony	amod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ebony	amod
11	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pricked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pricked	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 sat	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pricked	advcl
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sat	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 looking	compound:prt
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 snow	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 snow	det
21	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pricked	nsubj
24	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	parataxis
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 finger	nmod:poss
26	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pricked	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fell	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fell	cc
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 drops	nummod
30	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fell	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 blood	case
32	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drops	nmod
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pricked	conj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fell	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the frame of the window		of fine black ebony	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	sit	past	queen				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look out	gerund	queen not said here			upon the snow	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	prick	past	queen	queen's finger			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient
5	fall	past	three drops of blood		snow		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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