The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 91

But the two men who were holding the King by the arms seized his hands and forced a knife into his grasp, and then made him cut her little finger just enough to make it bleed.

Who acts: two men, man, finger · What happens: hold, seize, force, make, cut, bleed · To what, where: King, hands, knife, grasp, little finger, finger

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 (two men, man, finger), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 seized	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seized	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 holding	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 holding	aux
7	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 men	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 holding	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 arms	det
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 holding	obl
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seized	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 forced	cc
17	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 seized	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 knife	det
19	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forced	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 grasp	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 grasp	nmod:poss
22	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forced	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 made	advmod
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seized	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cut	nsubj
28	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 made	parataxis
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 finger	nmod:poss
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 finger	amod
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cut	obj
32	just	just	ADV	_	33 enough	advmod
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 cut	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cut	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	obj
37	bleed	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 make	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · progressive	the two men	the King			by the arms	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme by arm=Location
2	seize	past	the two men	man's hands				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	force	participle	the two men not said here	a knife	man's grasp			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Recipient
4	make	past	the two men not said here			then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	cut	past	man	bride's little finger			enough property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Product
6	make	to-infinitive	man not said here	finger				tree rules
7	bleed	infinitive	finger not said here					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
8	grasp		man					nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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