The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 37

I have got it!' she cried triumphantly, and laid the ointment on her daughter's tongue.

Who acts: I, woman · What happens: get, cry, lay · To what, where: sink, ointment, tongue

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, woman), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
9	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	_	8 cried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laid	cc
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ointment	det
14	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 tongue	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tongue	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 daughter	case
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	I	sink			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	woman			triumphantly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past	woman not said here	the ointment	woman's daughter's tongue		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme on tongue=Destination

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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