The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 37

He lifted his left arm where the gold was, and she picked up a knife and scraped his skin so that no gold should be left sticking to it.

Who acts: ball, gold, woman · What happens: lift, be, pick up, scrape, leave, stick · To what, where: left arm, knife, skin, gold

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, gold, woman), 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 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
4	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arm	amod
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 was	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gold	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 picked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 picked	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 picked	nsubj
13	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 picked	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 knife	det
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 picked	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scraped	cc
18	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 picked	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 skin	nmod:poss
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scraped	obj
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 left	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 gold	det
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 left	aux:pass
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 scraped	advcl
28	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 left	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sticking	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	lift	past	ball	ball's left arm		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	be	past	the gold			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pick up	past	woman	a knife		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic
4	scrape	past	woman not said here	ball's skin		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
5	leave	should · passive		no gold		tree rules
6	stick	gerund	no gold not said here		knife	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient

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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