The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 49
And pricking her arm, she wrote a few words with her blood on the corner of her handkerchief.
Who acts: queen · What happens: prick, write · To what, where: arm, few words, corner
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wrote | cc |
| 2 | pricking | prick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wrote | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arm | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pricking | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pricking | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wrote | nsubj |
| 7 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wrote | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 handkerchief | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 19 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 corner | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | gerund | queen not said here | queen's arm | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | write | past | queen | a few words | the corner of queen's handkerchief | with queen's blood | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on corner=Destination |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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