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title: And with these words, he turned on Nina with his knife, and stuck it… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 81

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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.

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**Who acts:** housekeeper · **What happens:** turn, stick, pierce, fill · **To what, where:** Nina, word, bladder

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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.

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**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:pg7277:26:81
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Nina	Nina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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