The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 1

So the following morning the dragoness took hold of the young man and reached down from the shelf a sharp knife with which to kill him.

Who acts: following morning, sharp knife · What happens: follow, take, reach down, kill, hold · To what, where: hold, sharp knife, shelf, man, young man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following morning, sharp knife), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragoness	det
6	dragoness	dragoness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	appos
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reached	cc
14	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 reached	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 shelf	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shelf	det
18	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 knife	det
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knife	amod
21	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 kill	nsubj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 kill	mark
25	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 knife	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kill	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the following morning	hold of the young man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	reach down	past	the following morning not said here	a sharp knife	the shelf	down property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from shelf=Source
4	kill	to-infinitive	a sharp knife	man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	hold			the young man			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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