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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 33

Now the young man had a pin sticking in the sleeve of his jacket, and the moment the girl’s hand touched him she pricked it so sharply that the blood came.

Who acts: young man, pin, hand, moment, blood · What happens: have, stick, touch, prick, come · To what, where: pin, sleeve, creature

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, pin, hand, moment), 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

advmoddetamodnsubjdetobjaclcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctccdetnsubjdetnmod:posscasensubjacl:relclobjnsubjconjobjadvmodadvmodmarkdetnsubjadvclpunctrootNowADVtheDETyoungADJmanNOUNhadVERBaDETpinNOUNstickingVERBinADPtheDETsleeveNOUNofADPhisPRONjacketNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETmomentNOUNtheDETgirlNOUN’sPARThandNOUNtouchedVERBhimPRONshePRONprickedVERBitPRONsoADVsharplyADVthatSCONJtheDETbloodNOUNcameVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem5 hadadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 mandet
3youngyoungADJDegree=Pos4 manamod
4manmanNOUNNumber=Sing5 hadnsubj
5hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 pindet
7pinpinNOUNNumber=Sing5 hadobj
8stickingstickVERBVerbForm=Ger7 pinacl
9ininADP_11 sleevecase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 sleevedet
11sleevesleeveNOUNNumber=Sing8 stickingobl
12ofofADP_14 jacketcase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 jacketnmod:poss
14jacketjacketNOUNNumber=Sing11 sleevenmod
15,,PUNCT_26 prickedpunct
16andandCCONJ_26 prickedcc
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 momentdet
18momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing26 prickednsubj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 girldet
20girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing22 handnmod:poss
21’s'sPART_20 girlcase
22handhandNOUNNumber=Sing23 touchednsubj
23touchedtouchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 momentacl:relcl
24himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 touchedobj
25sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 prickednsubj
26prickedprickVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 hadconj
27ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 prickedobj
28sosoADV_29 sharplyadvmod
29sharplysharplyADV_26 prickedadvmod
30thatthatSCONJ_33 camemark
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 blooddet
32bloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing33 camensubj
33camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 prickedadvcl
34..PUNCT_5 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastthe young mana pinnowvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient
2stickgerunda pin not said herethe sleeve of creature's jacketvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in sleeve=Destination
3touchpastthe girl's handcreaturevn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
4prickpastthe momentpinsharply propertyvn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
5comepastthe bloodvn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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 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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