The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 142

After she had performed several dances she drew her dagger and made passes with it, sometimes pointing it at her own breast, sometimes at her master’s, as if it were part of the dance.

Who acts: Morgiana, dagger · What happens: perform, draw, make, point, be · To what, where: several dances, dagger, passes, own breast

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morgiana, dagger), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 performed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 performed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 performed	aux
4	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 drew	advcl
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dances	amod
6	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 performed	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drew	nsubj
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dagger	nmod:poss
10	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drew	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drew	conj
13	passes	pass	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pointing	punct
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 pointing	advmod
18	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 made	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pointing	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 breast	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 breast	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 breast	amod
23	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pointing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 master	punct
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 master	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 master	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 master	nmod:poss
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pointing	obl
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 master	case
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 part	punct
31	as	as	ADP	_	35 part	case
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 part	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 part	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 part	cop
35	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pointing	parataxis
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 dance	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dance	det
38	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 part	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perform	past · perfect	Morgiana	several dances			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme
2	draw	past	Morgiana	Morgiana's dagger			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme
3	make	past	Morgiana not said here	passes		with dagger	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pass=Product
4	point	gerund	Morgiana not said here	dagger	Morgiana's own breast	at Morgiana's master; sometimes property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	dagger			as part; of the dance	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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