The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 92

The blade was always bright and clear; each time she looked she had the happiness of knowing that all was well, till one evening, tired and anxious, as she frequently was at the end of the day, she took it from its drawer, and behold! the blade was red with blood.

Who acts: blade, sister, happiness, all · What happens: be, look, have, know, take · To what, where: time, happiness, end, blade, drawer · 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 (blade, sister, happiness, all), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blade	det
2	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bright	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 bright	advmod
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clear	cc
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bright	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl:unmarked
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 happiness	det
16	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 knowing	case
18	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 happiness	acl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 evening	mark
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 evening	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 evening	cop
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 evening	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 well	punct
24	till	till	ADP	_	26 evening	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 evening	nummod
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knowing	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tired	punct
28	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 evening	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 anxious	cc
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tired	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 end	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 end	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 end	nsubj
34	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	38 end	advmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 end	cop
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 end	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 end	det
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 day	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 day	det
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 end	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 took	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 took	nsubj
44	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	parataxis
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 took	obj
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 drawer	case
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 drawer	nmod:poss
48	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 took	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 red	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 red	cc
51	behold	behold	INTJ	_	56 red	discourse
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	56 red	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 blade	det
54	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 red	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 red	cop
56	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 took	conj
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 blood	case
58	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 red	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bright	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the blade				always, bright property	tree rules
2	be		the blade not said here					tree rules
3	look	past	sister	each time not said here				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute
4	have	past	sister	the happiness		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Patient
5	know	gerund	the happiness not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	all			till one evening	well property	tree rules
7	is	past	sister			at the end; day	frequently property	tree rules
8	take	past	sister	blade	blade's drawer			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from drawer=Initial_Location
9	is	past	the blade				with blood; red property	tree rules

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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