The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 33
In order to make her spindle bloody, she stuck her hand into a hedge of thorns and pricked her finger.
Who acts: girl · What happens: make, spindle, stick, prick · To what, where: girl, hand, hedge, finger
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 make | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | spindle | spindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spindle | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuck | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stuck | nsubj |
| 10 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 hedge | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hedge | det |
| 15 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thorns | case |
| 17 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hedge | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pricked | cc |
| 19 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stuck | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 finger | nmod:poss |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pricked | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spindle | infinitive | girl not said here | bloody property | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stick | past | girl | girl's hand | a hedge of thorns | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme into hedge=Destination | |||
| 4 | prick | past | girl not said here | girl's finger | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=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 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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