The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 62
And rubbing in the poisonous herbs, she poured him out half of what remained, and then went to the window to call her cat.
Who acts: woman · What happens: rub, pour out, remain, go, call · To what, where: poisonous herbs, Pinkel, window, cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 poured | cc |
| 2 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 poured | advcl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 herbs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 herbs | det |
| 5 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 herbs | amod |
| 6 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rubbing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rubbing | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 poured | nsubj |
| 9 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 poured | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 poured | compound:prt |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 poured | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 half | nmod |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 poured | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 window | det |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 call | mark |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 went | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cat | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 call | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | gerund | woman not said here | the poisonous herbs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in herb=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pour out | past | woman | Pinkel | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme half=Destination | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | woman not said here | the window | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | call | to-infinitive | woman not said here | woman's cat | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient |
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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