The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 92

Then she took a tiny golden needle, pricked Elsa in the arm, and gave the needle to the old man, who stuck it into the heart of the doll.

Who acts: lady, old man · What happens: take, prick, give, stick · To what, where: tiny golden needle, Elsa, arm, needle, old man, heart

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, old man), 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 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 needle	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 needle	amod
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 needle	amod
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pricked	punct
9	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pricked	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 arm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 arm	det
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pricked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 needle	det
18	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 man	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stuck	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 stuck	nsubj
25	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 man	acl:relcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stuck	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 heart	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heart	det
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stuck	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 doll	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 doll	det
32	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heart	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	lady	a tiny golden needle			then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme
2	prick	past	lady not said here	Elsa		the arm		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elsa=Patient
3	give	past	lady not said here	the needle	the old man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent needle=Theme to man=Recipient
4	stick	past	the old man	needle		the heart of the doll		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into heart=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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