The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 21

In this way, with torn and bleeding hands, she gained the top; but here such a violent wind was blowing that she was almost blinded with dust, and was obliged to throw herself on the ground, and feel about after the precious herb.

Who acts: princess, violent wind · What happens: tear, bleed, gain, blow, blind, oblige · To what, where: way, hands, top, princess, ground

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, violent wind), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gained	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 torn	punct
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 torn	mark
6	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 way	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bleeding	cc
8	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 torn	conj
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bleeding	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gained	nsubj
12	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gained	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 blowing	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 blowing	cc
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 blowing	advmod
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 wind	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wind	det
20	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wind	amod
21	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blowing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 blowing	aux
23	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 gained	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 blinded	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 blinded	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 blinded	aux:pass
27	almost	almost	ADV	_	28 blinded	advmod
28	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 blowing	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 dust	case
30	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 blinded	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 obliged	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 obliged	cc
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 obliged	aux:pass
34	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 gained	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 throw	mark
36	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 obliged	xcomp
37	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 throw	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 throw	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 feel	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 feel	cc
43	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 obliged	advcl
44	about	about	ADV	_	43 feel	advmod
45	after	after	ADP	_	48 herb	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 herb	det
47	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 herb	amod
48	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 feel	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	participle		this way not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bleed	gerund		hands				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source
3	gain	past	princess	the top			in this way	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient top=Extent in way=Attribute
4	blow	past · progressive	such violent wind		here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	blind	past · passive		princess			with dust; almost property	tree rules
6	oblige	past · passive	princess not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
7	throw	to-infinitive	princess not said here	princess	the ground			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on ground=Destination
8	feel	present	princess not said here			after the precious herb	about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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