The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 23
This time she was not afraid at all, and ran towards him, washing the wound and laying soothing herbs upon it; and when she had bound it up the lion thanked her in the same manner as before.
Who acts: time, girl, lion · What happens: not be, run, wash, lay, bind up, thank · To what, where: all, wound, soothing herbs, girl, same manner
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, girl, lion), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 afraid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | conj |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 washing | punct |
| 15 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wound | det |
| 17 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 washing | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laying | cc |
| 19 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 washing | conj |
| 20 | soothing | soothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 herbs | amod |
| 21 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 laying | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laying | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 bound | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bound | cc |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 bound | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bound | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 bound | aux |
| 29 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 thanked | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bound | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 bound | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lion | det |
| 33 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thanked | nsubj |
| 34 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | parataxis |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thanked | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 manner | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 manner | det |
| 38 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 manner | amod |
| 39 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thanked | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 before | case |
| 41 | before | before | ADV | _ | 34 thanked | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | this time | all | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | past | this time not said here | towards surprise | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wash | gerund | this time not said here | the wound | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lay | gerund | this time not said here | soothing herbs | wound | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herb=Theme upon it=Destination | |||
| 5 | bind up | past · perfect | girl | wound | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | thank speech: thank | past | the lion | girl | the same manner | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme as before=Attribute |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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