The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 91
Meanwhile she had bathed her arm carefully, and bound on it some healing leaves that grew near by, and wrapped a cloth round the leaves, and went to hide in the forest, that her brother might not find her again.
Who acts: sister, healing leaves, brother · What happens: bath, bind, grow, wrap, go, hide · To what, where: arm, healing leaves, blow, cloth, forest, sister
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, healing leaves, brother), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 bathed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bathed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bathed | aux |
| 4 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bathed | obj |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 bathed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bound | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bound | cc |
| 10 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 bathed | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bound | obl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 leaves | det |
| 14 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | compound |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bound | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 17 grew | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 near | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrapped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wrapped | cc |
| 22 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bathed | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cloth | det |
| 24 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrapped | obj |
| 25 | round | round | ADP | _ | 27 leaves | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 leaves | det |
| 27 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wrapped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrapped | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 hide | mark |
| 32 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 went | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 forest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 forest | det |
| 35 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hide | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 find | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 find | mark |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 brother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 find | nsubj |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 find | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 find | advmod |
| 42 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 hide | advcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 find | obj |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 find | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bath | past · perfect | sister | sister's arm | carefully, meanwhile property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bind | participle | sister not said here | some healing leaves | blow | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||
| 3 | grow | past | some healing leaves | near property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wrap | past | sister not said here | a cloth | round the leaves | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | |||
| 5 | go | past | sister not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | hide | to-infinitive | sister not said here | the forest | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 7 | not find | might | sister's brother | sister | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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