The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 84
I had rescued had breathed into my ear, and I asked that my body might be rubbed with oil to release me the sooner from torture.
Who acts: I · What happens: rescue, breathe, ask, rub, release · To what, where: I, ear, body, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rescued | aux |
| 3 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breathed | aux |
| 5 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 rescued | conj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 ear | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breathed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rescued | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 rubbed | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 rubbed | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 18 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 oil | case |
| 20 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rubbed | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 release | mark |
| 22 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rubbed | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 release | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sooner | det |
| 25 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 release | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 torture | case |
| 27 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sooner | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rescued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | past · perfect · passive | I | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | breathe | past · perfect | my ear | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | rub | might · passive | my body | with oil | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with oil=Theme | ||||
| 5 | release | to-infinitive | me | soon property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source |
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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