The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 55

Then there was the dancer, who inflicted the wound which has caused me to be here now; she was very violent!

Who acts: dancer, wound · What happens: inflict, cause, be · To what, where: wound, me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancer, wound), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 violent	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dancer	det
5	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 inflicted	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 inflicted	nsubj
8	inflicted	inflict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancer	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wound	det
10	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 inflicted	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 caused	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 caused	aux
13	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 wound	acl:relcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 caused	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 here	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 here	cop
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 caused	advmod
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 here	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 violent	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 violent	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 violent	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 violent	advmod
23	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 violent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inflict	past	the dancer	the wound				tree rules
2	cause	present · perfect	the wound		me			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition i=Patient
3	is	to-infinitive				now	here property	tree rules
4	is	past	dancer				violent 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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