The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 63
She washed off the blood, bound up the injured foot with herbs, and said: ‘Now, dear, go and lie down and rest, so that your wound may heal.’
Who acts: sister, blood, wound, your · What happens: wash off, bind up, say, go, lie down, rest · To what, where: blood, injured foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, blood, wound, your), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 washed | nsubj |
| 2 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 blood | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blood | det |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 washed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bound | punct |
| 7 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 blood | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 bound | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 foot | det |
| 10 | injured | injured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 foot | amod |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bound | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 herbs | case |
| 13 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 foot | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 washed | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 dear | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 dear | punct |
| 19 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 dear | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dear | punct |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 dear | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lie | cc |
| 25 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 lie | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rest | cc |
| 28 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 heal | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 heal | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wound | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 heal | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 heal | aux |
| 35 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 washed | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash off | past | sister | the blood | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bind up | participle | the blood not said here | the injured foot | with herbs | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with herb=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sister not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | lie down | infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | rest | infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | heal | may | your wound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | wound | your | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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