The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 180
Taking a knife she chopped off her little finger, and placing it on the last step, it stuck as the bones had done.
Who acts: knife, idea · What happens: take, chop off, place, stick, do · To what, where: knife, little finger, bones
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knife, idea), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 stuck | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knife | det |
| 3 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chopped | nsubj |
| 5 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knife | acl:relcl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 finger | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 finger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 finger | amod |
| 9 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chopped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placing | cc |
| 12 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Taking | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 placing | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 step | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 step | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 step | amod |
| 17 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stuck | nsubj |
| 20 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 done | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bones | det |
| 23 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 done | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 stuck | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | knife not said here | a knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chop off | past | idea | idea's little finger | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | place | gerund | knife not said here | knife | on the last step | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on step=Destination | |||
| 4 | stick | past | knife | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect · passive | the bones | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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