The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 51

So she picked up a knife and scraped away all the gold which had stuck to his skin, and which had been sticking there ever since he first stole it.

Who acts: woman, Carrier · What happens: pick up, scrape away, stick, steal · To what, where: knife, gold

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Carrier), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 picked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 picked	nsubj
3	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 picked	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scraped	cc
8	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 scraped	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 gold	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gold	det
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scraped	obj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stuck	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	aux
15	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 gold	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 skin	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skin	nmod:poss
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stuck	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sticking	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sticking	cc
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sticking	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sticking	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 sticking	aux
24	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 scraped	advcl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sticking	advmod
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 sticking	advmod
27	since	since	SCONJ	_	30 stole	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stole	nsubj
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 stole	advmod
30	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sticking	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stole	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	woman	a knife				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic
2	scrape away	past	woman not said here	all gold			away property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient
3	stick	past · perfect · passive		all gold			to Carrier's skin	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to skin=Co-Patient
4	stick	past · perfect · progressive			there	ever		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	steal	past	Carrier	gold			first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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