The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 4

One day some drops of blood fell on her spindle, so she dipped it into the well meaning to wash it, but, as luck would have it, it dropped from her hand and fell right in.

Who acts: drops, widow, luck · What happens: fall, dip, mean, wash, have, drop · To what, where: spindle, well, hand

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 (drops, widow, luck), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl:unmarked
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 drops	det
4	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fell	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 blood	case
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drops	nmod
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 spindle	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 spindle	nmod:poss
10	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dipped	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 dipped	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dipped	nsubj
14	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dipped	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 well	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 well	det
18	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dipped	obl
19	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dipped	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 wash	mark
21	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 meaning	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wash	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dropped	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 dropped	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 but	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
27	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 dropped	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dropped	nsubj
33	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 hand	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hand	nmod:poss
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dropped	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fell	cc
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dropped	conj
39	right	right	ADV	_	40 in	advmod
40	in	in	ADV	_	38 fell	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fall	past	some drops of blood		widow's spindle	day	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spindle=Location
2	dip	past	widow	spindle	the well		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into well=Destination
3	mean	gerund	widow not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wash not said to happen	to-infinitive	widow not said here	spindle			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	have	would	luck	spindle			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	drop	past	luck		widow's hand		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from hand=Trajectory
7	fall	past	luck not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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