The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 27

Having observed that the key of the closet was stained with blood, she tried two or three times to wipe it off, but the blood would not come out; in vain did she wash it, and even rub it with soap and sand; the blood still remained, for the key was magical and she could never make it quite clean; when the blood was gone off from one side, it came again on the other.

Who acts: floor, blood, key · What happens: have, observe, stain, try, wipe off, not come out · To what, where: key, blood, vain, one side, other

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, blood, key), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 tried	csubj
2	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 stained	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 key	det
5	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stained	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 closet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 closet	det
8	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 key	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stained	aux:pass
10	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 observed	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 blood	case
12	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stained	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tried	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tried	nsubj
15	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 times	nummod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 three	cc
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 two	conj
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tried	obl:unmarked
20	to	to	PART	_	21 wipe	mark
21	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tried	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wipe	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	21 wipe	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 blood	det
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 come	advmod
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wipe	conj
31	out	out	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 wash	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 vain	case
34	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wash	obl
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 wash	aux
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wash	nsubj
37	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tried	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wash	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 rub	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rub	cc
41	even	even	ADV	_	42 rub	advmod
42	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 wash	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 rub	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 soap	case
45	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rub	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 sand	cc
47	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 soap	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 remained	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 blood	det
50	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 remained	nsubj:pass
51	still	still	ADV	_	52 remained	advmod
52	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tried	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 magical	punct
54	for	for	SCONJ	_	58 magical	mark
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 key	det
56	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 magical	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 magical	cop
58	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 remained	parataxis
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 make	cc
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 make	nsubj
61	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 make	aux
62	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	63 make	advmod
63	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 magical	conj
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 make	obj
65	quite	quite	ADV	_	66 clean	advmod
66	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 make	xcomp
67	;	;	PUNCT	_	72 gone	punct
68	when	when	SCONJ	_	72 gone	mark
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 blood	det
70	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 gone	nsubj
71	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 gone	aux:pass
72	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tried	parataxis
73	off	off	ADP	_	72 gone	compound:prt
74	from	from	ADP	_	76 side	case
75	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	76 side	nummod
76	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 gone	obl
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 came	punct
78	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	79 came	nsubj
79	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 gone	parataxis
80	again	again	ADV	_	79 came	advmod
81	on	on	ADP	_	83 other	case
82	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	83 other	det
83	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 came	obl
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund						tree rules
2	observe	participle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stain	past · passive		the key of the closet			with blood	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme
4	try	past	floor			time		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wipe off not said to happen	to-infinitive	floor not said here	blood				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	not come out	would	the blood				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	wash	past · do-support	floor	blood	vain			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	rub	infinitive	floor not said here	blood			with soap and sand	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with soap=Theme
9	remain	participle · passive		the blood		still		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
10	is	past	the key				magical property	tree rules
11	not make	could	floor	blood			clean property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
12	go off	past · passive		the blood	one side			tree rules
13	come	past	blood		the other	again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=Location

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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