The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 103
And as she sewed and gazed out to the white landscape, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell on the snow outside, and because the red showed out so well against the white she thought to herself:
Who acts: Queen, three drops, red · What happens: sew, gaze out, prick, fall, show out, think · To what, where: finger, snow, white, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, three drops, red), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pricked | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sewed | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sewed | nsubj |
| 4 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pricked | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gazed | cc |
| 6 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sewed | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 gazed | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 landscape | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 landscape | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 landscape | amod |
| 11 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sewed | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pricked | nsubj |
| 14 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 finger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pricked | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 needle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 needle | det |
| 19 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pricked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fell | cc |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 drops | nummod |
| 23 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 blood | case |
| 25 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drops | nmod |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pricked | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 snow | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 snow | det |
| 29 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | obl |
| 30 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 26 fell | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 showed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 showed | cc |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 showed | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 red | det |
| 35 | red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 showed | nsubj |
| 36 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pricked | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 showed | compound:prt |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 well | advmod |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 white | advmod |
| 40 | against | against | ADP | _ | 42 white | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 white | det |
| 42 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 showed | obl |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 thought | nsubj |
| 44 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 white | acl:relcl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 herself | case |
| 46 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 thought | obl |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 pricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | past | Queen | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gaze out | past | Queen not said here | to the white landscape | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to landscape=Theme | ||||
| 3 | prick | past | Queen | Queen's finger | with the needle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent finger=Patient with needle=Instrument | |||
| 4 | fall | past | three drops of blood | the snow | outside property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on snow=Location | |||
| 5 | show out | past | the red | against the white | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | Queen | the white not said here | Queen | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot white=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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