The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 40
For the balsam with which I have rubbed it inside and out has, besides its healing balm, the quality of strengthening the material it touches, so that, even were your majesty to live a thousand years, you would find the slipper just as fresh at the end of that time as it is now.'
Who acts: I, balsam, quality, you · What happens: rub, have, beside, strengthen, touch, be · To what, where: balsam, healing balm, material, majesty, slipper
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, balsam, quality, you), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 balsam | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 balsam | det |
| 3 | balsam | balsam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rubbed | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 rubbed | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rubbed | aux |
| 8 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 balsam | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rubbed | obj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 8 rubbed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 out | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 inside | conj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 besides | punct |
| 15 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 has | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 balm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 balm | compound |
| 18 | balm | balm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 besides | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 quality | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 quality | det |
| 21 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 balm | appos |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 strengthening | mark |
| 23 | strengthening | strengthen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 quality | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 material | det |
| 25 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 strengthening | obj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 touches | nsubj |
| 27 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 material | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 that | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 besides | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 majesty | punct |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 majesty | advmod |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 majesty | cop |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 35 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 besides | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 live | mark |
| 37 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 majesty | acl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 thousand | det |
| 39 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 years | nummod |
| 40 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 live | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 find | punct |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 find | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 find | aux |
| 44 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 has | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 slipper | det |
| 46 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 find | obj |
| 47 | just | just | ADV | _ | 49 fresh | advmod |
| 48 | as | as | ADV | _ | 49 fresh | advmod |
| 49 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 find | xcomp |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 end | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 end | det |
| 52 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 fresh | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 time | case |
| 54 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 55 time | det |
| 55 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 end | nmod |
| 56 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 58 is | mark |
| 57 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 is | nsubj |
| 58 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 fresh | advcl |
| 59 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 58 is | advmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 61 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | present · perfect | I | balsam | with the balsam; inside property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with which=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | the balsam | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beside | present | the balsam not said here | balsam's healing balm | so that | tree rules | |||
| 4 | strengthen | gerund | the quality not said here | the material | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent material=Patient | ||||
| 5 | touch | present | balsam | the material not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme material=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | your majesty | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | live | to-infinitive | the balsam not said here | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | find | would | you | the slipper | fresh property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Topic | |||
| 9 | be | present | balsam | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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