Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 11

Then they rubbed the corners of their mouths with fish-oil, so that they might become very smooth and glib.

Who acts: laws · What happens: rub, become · To what, where: corners

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laws), 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 rubbed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbed	nsubj
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corners	det
5	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rubbed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouths	nmod:poss
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 corners	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 oil	case
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 oil	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fish	punct
12	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouths	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 become	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 become	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 become	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 become	aux
18	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rubbed	conj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 smooth	advmod
20	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 become	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 glib	cc
22	glib	glib	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 smooth	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	laws = law	the corners of laws's mouths with fish oil			then		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme
2	become	might	laws = law					smooth property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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