--- title: But the two men who were holding the King by the arms seized his han… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But the two men who were holding the King by the arms seized his hands and forced a knife into his grasp, and then made him cut her little finger just enough to make it bleed. Who acts: two men, man, finger. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/91/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/) / 91 # The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 91 But the two men who were holding the King by the arms seized his hands and forced a knife into his grasp, and then made him cut her little finger just enough to make it bleed. **Who acts:** two men, man, finger · **What happens:** hold, seize, force, make, cut, bleed · **To what, where:** King, hands, knife, grasp, little finger, finger This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men, man, finger), 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:pg540:47:91 # text = But the two men who were holding the King by the arms seized his hands and forced a knife into his grasp, and then made him cut her little finger just enough to make it bleed. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 grasp grasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 just just ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 enough enough ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 bleed bleed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past · progressive | the two men | the King | | | | by the arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme by arm=Location | | 2 | **seize** | past | the two men | man's hands | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 3 | **force** | participle | the two men *not said here* | a knife | | man's grasp | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Recipient | | 4 | **make** | past | the two men *not said here* | | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **cut** | past | man | bride's little finger | | | | enough *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Product | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | finger | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **bleed** | infinitive | finger *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 8 | **grasp** | | man | | | | | | nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/92/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)