The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 81
And with these words, he turned on Nina with his knife, and stuck it right into her, so that he pierced the bladder filled with blood.
Who acts: housekeeper · What happens: turn, stick, pierce, fill · To what, where: Nina, word, bladder
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housekeeper), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 turned | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 words | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Nina | case |
| 9 | Nina | Nina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 knife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuck | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stuck | cc |
| 15 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stuck | obj |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 her | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stuck | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pierced | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 pierced | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pierced | nsubj |
| 24 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stuck | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bladder | det |
| 26 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pierced | obj |
| 27 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bladder | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 blood | case |
| 29 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 filled | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | housekeeper | Nina | with this words; with housekeeper's knife | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on nina=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stick | past | word | into Nina | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pierce | past | housekeeper | the bladder | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | the bladder not said here | with blood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blood=Instrument |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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