The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 80

She then saw that it was something else than the blood of the deer that stained his shirts, so one day she took courage and asked him about it.

Who acts: queen, forest, deer · What happens: see, be, stain, take, ask · To what, where: something, shirts, courage, man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, forest, deer), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 something	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 something	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 something	cop
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 saw	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 something	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 blood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blood	det
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 something	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 deer	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deer	det
14	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blood	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stained	nsubj
16	stained	stain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 deer	acl:relcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shirts	nmod:poss
18	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stained	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 took	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 day	nummod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl:unmarked
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
25	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	iobj
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	queen			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	forest	something			than the blood of the deer; else property	tree rules
3	stain	past	the deer	man's shirts				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shirt=Destination
4	take	past	queen	courage		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	queen not said here		man		about forest	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about it=Topic

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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