The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 18

There was also, near by, a reindeer which the robber-girl teased by tickling it with her long sharp knife.

Who acts: reindeer · What happens: be, girl, tease, tickle · To what, where: robber girl, reindeer

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reindeer	punct
5	near	near	ADP	_	9 reindeer	case
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 near	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reindeer	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 reindeer	det
9	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	parataxis
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 girl	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
12	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 girl	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 robber	punct
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reindeer	parataxis
15	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 girl	acl
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 tickling	mark
17	tickling	tickle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 teased	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tickling	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 knife	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 knife	nmod:poss
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knife	amod
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knife	amod
23	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tickling	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	girl		a reindeer				tree rules
3	tease	participle		the robber girl not said here			vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tickle	gerund		reindeer		with girl's long sharp knife	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with knife=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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