The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 32

But just as he stretched out his hand to take it he received from some invisible being so hard a blow on the arm that it was made quite numb.

Who acts: prince, some, arm · What happens: stretch out, take, receive, be, make · To what, where: hand, invisible blow

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, some, arm), 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	_	5 stretched	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 stretched	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 stretched	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stretched	nsubj
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 stretched	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretched	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stretched	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 received	nsubj
13	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 take	ccomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	21 blow	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 blow	nsubj
16	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blow	amod
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 blow	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 hard	advmod
19	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 blow	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blow	det
21	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 received	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 arm	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 arm	det
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blow	nmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 made	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 arm	acl:relcl
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 numb	advmod
30	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 made	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	prince	prince's hand			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	take	to-infinitive	prince not said here	hand			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute
3	receive	past	prince				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund	some		a invisible blow	on the arm; hard property	tree rules
5	make	past · passive	the arm not said here	hand		numb property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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