The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 64

First he brought her some water, and then he fetched some healing herbs, and having crushed them in his hand, laid them on the wound.

Who acts: doe · What happens: bring, fetch, crush, lay · To what, where: water, Eglantine, healing herbs, herbs, hand, wound

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doe), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 brought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fetched	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fetched	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fetched	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fetched	nsubj
11	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 herbs	det
13	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 herbs	compound
14	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fetched	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crushed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crushed	cc
17	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 crushed	aux
18	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 brought	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crushed	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crushed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laid	punct
24	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laid	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 wound	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wound	det
28	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laid	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	doe	some water	Eglantine			first property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination water=Theme
2	fetch	past	doe	some healing herbs			then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme
3	crush	gerund · perfect		herbs = herb		doe's hand			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	lay	past	doe not said here	herbs = herb		the wound			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on wound=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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