The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 88

He spilt a drop on Ritter Red’s plate but none upon hers, and each time that he did it Ritter Red fell into a rage and struck him.

Who acts: Red, Ritter · What happens: spilt, do, fall, strike · To what, where: drop, plate, rage, Red

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red, Ritter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spilt	nsubj
2	spilt	spilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drop	det
4	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spilt	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 plate	case
6	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Red	compound
7	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plate	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Red	case
9	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spilt	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 none	cc
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 plate	conj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 hers	case
13	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 none	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 did	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 time	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	obj
22	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fell	nsubj
23	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ritter	flat
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spilt	parataxis
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 rage	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rage	det
27	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 struck	cc
29	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 struck	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spilt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spilt	past	Red	a drop	Ritter Red's plate			tree rules
2	do	past	Red	drop				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	fall	past	Ritter			time	into a rage result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result
4	strike	past	Ritter not said here	Red				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

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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