The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 199
So she dipped her tail first in the oil and then in the pepper, and held it to the sorcerer’s nose.
Who acts: last · What happens: dip, hold · To what, where: tail, oil
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dipped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dipped | nsubj |
| 3 | dipped | dip | 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 tail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dipped | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 dipped | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 oil | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oil | det |
| 9 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dipped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pepper | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 pepper | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pepper | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pepper | det |
| 14 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 oil | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dipped | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 nose | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sorcerer | det |
| 21 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nose | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 sorcerer | case |
| 23 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past | last | last's tail | the oil and the pepper | first property | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in oil=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | hold | past | last not said here | tail | to the sorcerer's nose | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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