The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 100

The lady clapped her hands, and in came the Dark Man and kissed her and the baby, and praised me, and gave me a bottle of green ointment to rub the child all over.

Who acts: lady, Dark Man · What happens: clap, come, kiss, praise, give, rub · To what, where: hands, lady, me, bottle, child

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Dark Man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clapped	nsubj
3	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clapped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 came	case
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clapped	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Man	det
11	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Man	amod
12	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kissed	cc
14	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kissed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 baby	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 baby	det
18	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kissed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 praised	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 praised	cc
21	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clapped	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 praised	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 praised	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bottle	det
28	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 ointment	case
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ointment	amod
31	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bottle	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 rub	mark
33	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 gave	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 child	det
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rub	obj
36	all	all	ADV	_	37 over	advmod
37	over	over	ADV	_	33 rub	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	clap	past	the lady	lady's hands			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	come	past	the Dark Man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kiss	past	the Dark Man not said here	lady			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
4	praise	past	the lady not said here	me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	give	past	the lady not said here	a bottle of green ointment	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bottle=Theme
6	rub	to-infinitive	the lady not said here		the child	over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Destination

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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