The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 129

When I heard him snoring, as I was I went up and caused the woman to bind my wound with a handkerchief; and, taking the giant’s spit, reddened it in the fire, and ran it through the eye, but was not able to kill him.

Who acts: I, fear, woman, my · What happens: hear, snore, be, cause, bind, take · To what, where: fear, woman, wound, spit, fire, eye

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fear, woman, my), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	snoring	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 heard	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	cop
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snoring	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 caused	cc
14	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caused	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bind	mark
18	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 caused	xcomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wound	nmod:poss
20	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bind	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 handkerchief	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 handkerchief	det
23	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bind	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 taking	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 taking	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
27	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 giant	det
29	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spit	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 giant	case
31	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taking	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reddened	punct
33	reddened	redden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 taking	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reddened	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 fire	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fire	det
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reddened	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ran	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 ran	cc
40	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 reddened	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 ran	obj
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 eye	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 eye	det
44	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ran	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 able	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 able	cc
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 able	cop
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 able	advmod
49	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	parataxis
50	to	to	PART	_	51 kill	mark
51	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 able	xcomp
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 kill	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	fear			tree rules
2	snore	gerund	fear not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	I			go property	tree rules
4	cause	past	I not said here	the woman			tree rules
5	bind	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	my wound		with a handkerchief	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient with handkerchief=Co-Patient
6	take	gerund	I not said here	the giant's spit			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spit=Theme
7	redden	past	I not said here	spit	the fire		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	run	past	I not said here	spit	the eye		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme through eye=Trajectory
9	not is	past				able property	tree rules
10	kill	to-infinitive		fear			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
11	wound		my				nom wound «state 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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