The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 77

Get on my back, and I will gallop till my whole body is wet with perspiration, then rub it all over your skin, and no matter how hot the oil may be you will never feel it.'

Who acts: you, I, whole body, matter · What happens: get, gallop, be, rub, not be · To what, where: back, body, skin

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, whole body, matter), 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	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 back	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gallop	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gallop	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 gallop	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 gallop	aux
9	gallop	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	conj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 wet	mark
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 body	nmod:poss
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wet	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wet	cop
15	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gallop	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 perspiration	case
17	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wet	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rub	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 rub	advmod
20	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rub	obj
22	all	all	ADV	_	25 skin	advmod
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 skin	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 skin	nmod:poss
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rub	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 feel	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 feel	cc
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 matter	det
29	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 feel	nsubj
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 hot	advmod
31	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 matter	amod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 oil	det
33	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hot	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 feel	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 feel	cop
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 feel	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 feel	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 feel	advmod
39	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 feel	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here		my back			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
2	gallop	future	I					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	my whole body				with perspiration; wet property	tree rules
4	rub	infinitive	you not said here	body	your skin	then		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over skin=Destination
5	not is	may · future	no matter				feel property	tree rules

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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