The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 51

The woman washed their feet, and rubbed them with an ointment that took all the soreness out of their bones, and made them as fresh as a daisy.

Who acts: woman, ointment · What happens: wash, rub, take, make · To what, where: feet, soreness, bones, sorrows

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, ointment), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 washed	nsubj
3	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 washed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rubbed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rubbed	cc
8	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 washed	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rubbed	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 ointment	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ointment	det
12	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubbed	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ointment	acl:relcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 soreness	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soreness	det
17	soreness	soreness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 bones	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 bones	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bones	nmod:poss
21	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 washed	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 fresh	advmod
27	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 made	xcomp
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 daisy	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 daisy	det
30	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fresh	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wash	past	the woman	sorrows's feet			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
2	rub	past	the woman not said here	feet = foot		with a ointment	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with ointment=Theme
3	take	past	a ointment	all soreness	sorrows's bones		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent soreness=Theme out bone=Initial_Location
4	make	past	the woman not said here	sorrows = sorrow		fresh property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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