The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 59

When he had hit upon a plan he called his wife, and said to her, ‘Take a bladder and fill it with blood, and bind it round your neck.

Who acts: band · What happens: hit, call, say, take, fill, bind · To what, where: plan, wife, bladder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band), 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	4 hit	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
4	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 plan	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Take	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Take	punct
19	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bladder	det
21	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Take	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fill	cc
23	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Take	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fill	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 blood	case
26	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fill	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bind	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bind	cc
29	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Take	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bind	obj
31	round	round	ADP	_	33 neck	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 neck	nmod:poss
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bind	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hit	past · perfect	band			upon a plan	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	past	band	a plan not said here	band's wife		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	band not said here		wife		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	take	infinitive		a bladder			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Theme
5	fill	infinitive		bladder		with blood	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with blood=Instrument
6	bind	infinitive		bladder		round your neck	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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