The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 28

Then the mink crept up to him and stabbed him to the heart with his knife, and he died without moving.

Who acts: mink, Wolf · What happens: creep up, stab, die, move · To what, where: Wolf

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mink, Wolf), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 crept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mink	det
3	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 crept	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crept	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stabbed	cc
9	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stabbed	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 heart	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heart	det
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stabbed	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 knife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 knife	nmod:poss
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heart	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 died	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 died	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 died	nsubj
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 moving	mark
22	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 died	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	the mink		Wolf	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination
2	stab	past	the mink not said here	Wolf			to the heart with Wolf's knife result	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to heart=Result
3	die	past	Wolf					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	move	gerund	Wolf not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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