--- title: And as she sewed and gazed out to the white landscape, she pricked h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And as she sewed and gazed out to the white landscape, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell on the snow outside, and because the red showed out so well against the white she thought to herself: Who acts: Queen, three drops, red. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, three drops, red), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:47:103 # text = And as she sewed and gazed out to the white landscape, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell on the snow outside, and because the red showed out so well against the white she thought to herself: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sewed sew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 landscape landscape NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pricked prick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 outside outside ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 40 against against ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 white white NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sew** | past | Queen | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **gaze out** | past | Queen *not said here* | | | | | to the white landscape | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to landscape=Theme | | 3 | **prick** | past | Queen | Queen's finger | | | | with the needle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent finger=Patient with needle=Instrument | | 4 | **fall** | past | three drops of blood | | | the snow | | outside *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on snow=Location | | 5 | **show out** | past | the red | | | | | against the white | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Queen | the white *not said here* | Queen | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot white=Theme | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/104/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)