The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 74

That day his sister, who thought her brother’s steps were long in returning, took out the knife and found the blade was red as blood.

Who acts: sister, steps, day, blade, brother · What happens: think, be, return, take out, find, step · To what, where: knife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, steps, day, blade), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sister	parataxis
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 steps	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 brother	case
11	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 long	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	ccomp
14	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 returning	mark
15	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 long	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 knife	det
20	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blade	det
24	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 red	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 red	cop
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 found	ccomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 blood	case
28	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 red	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	noise's sister			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	sister's brother's steps		long property	tree rules
3	return	gerund	sister's brother's steps not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take out	past	that day	the knife		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	find	past	that day not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the blade		as blood; red property	tree rules
7	step		sister's brother			nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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