The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 9
Gladly did Ian the fisher’s son accept her offer, and all that day he rested, and the woman gave him ointment to put on his feet, which healed his sores.
Who acts: son, woman, feet, Ian · What happens: do, accept, rest, give, put, heal · To what, where: Ian, offer, ointment, son, feet, sores
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, woman, feet, Ian), 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 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fisher | det |
| 5 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 fisher | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accept | nsubj |
| 8 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 offer | nmod:poss |
| 10 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accept | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rested | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rested | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det:predet |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rested | nsubj |
| 17 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rested | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 put | mark |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ointment | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 feet | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 feet | nmod:poss |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 healed | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 healed | nsubj |
| 32 | healed | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 feet | acl:relcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 sores | nmod:poss |
| 34 | sores | sore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 healed | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ian | gladly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ian=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | accept | infinitive | the fisher's son | Ian's offer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | past | son | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the woman | ointment | son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ointment=Theme | |||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | ointment not said here | son's feet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on foot=Destination | |||
| 6 | heal | past | son's feet | son's sores | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sore=Patient | ||||
| 7 | offer | Ian | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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