The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 64
But, when you see her, stick a pin into the palm of her hand, and suck the drops of blood that flow.
Who acts: you, blood · What happens: see, stick, suck, flow · To what, where: woman, pin, palm, drops
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 (you, blood), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 stick | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stick | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stick | punct |
| 8 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pin | det |
| 10 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stick | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 palm | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palm | det |
| 13 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stick | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 palm | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 suck | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 suck | cc |
| 19 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 stick | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 drops | det |
| 21 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 suck | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 blood | case |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drops | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 flow | nsubj |
| 25 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 blood | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stick | imperative | you not said here | a pin | the palm of woman's hand | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme into palm=Destination | |||
| 3 | suck | infinitive | the drops of blood | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent drop=Source | |||||
| 4 | flow | present | blood | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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