The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 52
Then they daubed my face and hands with a sweet-smelling ointment, which in a few minutes removed all the smarts of the arrows.
Who acts: tokens, smelling ointment, arrows · What happens: daub, smell, remove, smart · To what, where: face, smarts
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tokens, smelling ointment, arrows), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 daubed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 daubed | nsubj |
| 3 | daubed | daub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daubed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hands | cc |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 face | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 ointment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ointment | det |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 smelling | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sweet | punct |
| 12 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ointment | amod |
| 13 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daubed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 removed | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 removed | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 minutes | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 minutes | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 minutes | amod |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 removed | obl |
| 20 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ointment | acl:relcl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 smarts | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 smarts | det |
| 23 | smarts | smart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 removed | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 arrows | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 arrows | det |
| 26 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 smarts | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 daubed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daub | past | tokens = token | my face and hands | then | with a smelling ointment | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with ointment=Theme | ||
| 2 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | remove | participle | a smelling ointment | all smarts of the arrows | minute | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smart=Theme | |||
| 4 | smart | the arrows | nom smart «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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