The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 101
He knelt down by her side, and pulling a pin he stuck it into the palm of her hand, so that a drop of blood gushed out.
Who acts: castle · What happens: kneel down, pull, stick, gush out · To what, where: pin, palm, drop
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knelt | nsubj |
| 2 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 knelt | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 side | nmod:poss |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knelt | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stuck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stuck | cc |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stuck | csubj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pin | det |
| 11 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulling | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stuck | nsubj |
| 13 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knelt | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stuck | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 palm | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palm | det |
| 17 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stuck | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palm | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gushed | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 28 gushed | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 gushed | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 drop | det |
| 25 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gushed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 blood | case |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drop | nmod |
| 28 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stuck | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 gushed | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel down | past | castle | by Sister's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | a pin | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stick | past | castle | pin | the palm of Sister's hand | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into palm=Destination | |||
| 4 | gush out | participle · passive | a drop of blood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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