The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 86

And, stooping over a spring of water, he dipped a handful of moss in it and rubbed it over the arms and legs of the boys.

Who acts: head · What happens: stoop, dip, rub · To what, where: handful, moss, arms

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	_	11 dipped	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stooping	punct
3	stooping	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 dipped	ccomp
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 spring	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stooping	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spring	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stooping	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dipped	nsubj
11	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 handful	det
13	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dipped	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 moss	case
15	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handful	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dipped	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rubbed	cc
19	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dipped	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rubbed	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 arms	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 arms	det
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rubbed	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 legs	cc
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 arms	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 boys	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boys	det
28	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 legs	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stoop	gerund	head not said here			spring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dip	past	head	a handful of moss	moss		tree rules
3	rub	past	head not said here	handful	the arms and legs of the boys		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over arm=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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