The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 133

And so the girls told her they had first smeared their heads with pitch and then laid hot stones upon them.

Who acts: girls, sisters · What happens: tell, smear, lay · To what, where: witch, heads, hot stones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, sisters), 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	_	5 told	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smeared	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 smeared	aux
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 smeared	advmod
10	smeared	smear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 smeared	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 pitch	case
14	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smeared	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laid	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 laid	advmod
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 smeared	conj
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 laid	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laid	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the girls		witch			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	smear	past · perfect	sisters = sister	sisters's heads			with pitch; first property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with pitch=Theme
3	lay	past	sisters = sister not said here	hot stones		then	upon sisters = sister	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme upon they=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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