The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 23

The bear sank down with a groan, and as her eyes were full of cranberry juice, which completely blinded her, the wolverine took up a sharp knife and stabbed her to the heart.

Who acts: bear, eyes, wolverine · What happens: sink down, be, blind, take up, stab · To what, where: cranberry juice, sharp knife, bear

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, eyes, wolverine), 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 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sank	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 groan	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 groan	det
7	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 full	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 full	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 full	cop
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 took	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 juice	case
16	cranberry	cranberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 juice	compound
17	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blinded	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 blinded	obj
20	completely	completely	ADV	_	21 blinded	advmod
21	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 juice	acl:relcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blinded	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 full	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wolverine	det
25	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sank	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 took	compound:prt
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 knife	det
29	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 knife	amod
30	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stabbed	cc
32	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stabbed	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 heart	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heart	det
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stabbed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sink down	past	the bear		with a groan; down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with groan=Instrument
2	is	past	bear's eyes		of cranberry juice; full property	tree rules
3	blind	past		cranberry juice	completely property	tree rules
4	take up	past	the wolverine	a sharp knife		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	stab	past	the wolverine not said here	bear	to the heart result	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to heart=Result

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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