The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 94

Then the deer entered and dropped the healing wax on the dead man, and he was as well as ever.

Who acts: deer, wax · What happens: enter, drop, be · To what, where: healing wax

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, wax), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 entered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 deer	det
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dropped	cc
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wax	det
8	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wax	compound
9	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ever	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ever	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ever	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ever	cop
18	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	21 ever	cc
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed
20	as	as	ADP	_	18 as	fixed
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 entered	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the deer		then		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop	past	the deer not said here	the healing wax		on the dead man	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wax=Theme on man=Destination
3	is	past	wax			ever property	tree rules

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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