The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 29

Ingibjorg, who by this time was nearly fainting from all she had gone through, drank greedily some milk, and then sank back on the cushions while Kisa fetched some dried herbs from a cupboard, soaked them in warm water and tied them on the bleeding legs.

Who acts: Ingibjorg, all, Kisa, cupboard · What happens: faint, go through, drink, sink back, fetch, soak · To what, where: milk, cushions, dried herbs, cupboard, herbs

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ingibjorg, all, Kisa, cupboard), 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	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 drank	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fainting	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fainting	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fainting	obl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fainting	aux
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	9 fainting	advmod
9	fainting	faint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ingibjorg	conj
10	from	from	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 gone	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 fainting	advcl
15	through	through	ADV	_	14 gone	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ingibjorg	punct
17	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	17 drank	advmod
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 milk	det
20	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drank	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sank	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sank	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sank	advmod
24	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drank	parataxis
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 sank	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 cushions	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cushions	det
28	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sank	obl
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 fetched	mark
30	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 fetched	nsubj
31	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sank	advcl
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 herbs	det
33	dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 herbs	amod
34	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fetched	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 cupboard	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cupboard	det
37	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fetched	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 soaked	punct
39	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 cupboard	acl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 soaked	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 water	case
42	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 water	amod
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 soaked	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 tied	cc
45	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fetched	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tied	obj
47	on	on	ADP	_	50 legs	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 legs	det
49	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 legs	compound
50	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 tied	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past · progressive	Ingibjorg			time	nearly property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	go through	past · perfect	all				through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drink	past	Ingibjorg	some milk			greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
4	sink back	past			the cushions	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	fetch	past	Kisa	some dried herbs	a cupboard			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent herb=Theme from cupboard=Source
6	soak	participle	a cupboard not said here	herbs = herb			in warm water	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in water=Theme
7	tie	past	Kisa not said here	herbs = herb			on the bleeding legs	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient on leg=Co-Patient

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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