The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 67
Put some bear’s grease on your beard and that will soon make it grow again.’
Who acts: you, that, grease · What happens: put, make, grow · To what, where: grease, beard
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, grease), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grease | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 bear | case |
| 5 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 beard | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beard | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 make | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 make | advmod |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 grow | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | some bear's grease | your beard | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent grease=Theme on beard=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | future | that | grease | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | grease not said here | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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