The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 37
Rub your eyes with the ointment it contains, and you will see that you yourself contain a priceless treasure.’
Who acts: you, ointment · What happens: rub, contain, see · To what, where: eyes, ointment, priceless treasure
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rub | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ointment | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ointment | det |
| 6 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rub | obl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 contains | nsubj |
| 8 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ointment | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Rub | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 contain | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 contain | nsubj |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 you | nmod |
| 17 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 treasure | det |
| 19 | priceless | priceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 treasure | amod |
| 20 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contain | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rub | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | imperative | you not said here | your eyes | with the ointment | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with ointment=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | present | ointment | the ointment not said here | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ointment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | contain | present | you | a priceless treasure | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=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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