The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 61

But the old woman would listen to nothing; and at last the barber took out his knife and struck the first blow at her neck.

Who acts: old woman, last · What happens: listen, take out, strike · To what, where: knife, first blow, neck

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, last), 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	_	6 listen	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	aux
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 listen	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 took	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 barber	det
14	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 last	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 knife	nmod:poss
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 struck	cc
20	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 blow	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 blow	amod
23	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 neck	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 neck	nmod:poss
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	would	the old woman			to nothing	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme
2	take out	past	last	barber's knife			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	strike	past	last not said here	the first blow	woman's neck		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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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