The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 106
After that she spread some of the deer fat out of the calabash over the wound, which she held in the steam of the hot water.
Who acts: girl, wound · What happens: spread, hold · To what, where: some, calabash, steam
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, wound), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 spread | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 spread | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fat | det |
| 8 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fat | compound |
| 9 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 some | nmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 calabash | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 calabash | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 calabash | det |
| 13 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 wound | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wound | det |
| 16 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calabash | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 held | nsubj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 held | nsubj |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wound | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 steam | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 steam | det |
| 23 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 26 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 water | amod |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 steam | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | girl | some | the calabash over the wound | after that | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme out calabash=Destination | ||
| 2 | hold | past | the wound | the steam of the hot water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in steam=Location |
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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