The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 31

She fell on her knees before him and washed his wounds one by one, and laid healing herbs upon them.

Who acts: Lion, friend · What happens: fall, wash, lay, heal, wound · To what, where: knees, wounds, herbs

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 (Lion, friend), 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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knees	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 washed	cc
9	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wounds	nmod:poss
11	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 washed	obj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 wounds	flat
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laid	cc
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
18	healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 laid	xcomp
19	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 healing	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 healing	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Lion		Lion's knees	before friend		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	wash	past	Lion not said here	friend's wounds				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient
3	lay	past	Lion not said here					tree rules
4	heal	gerund	Lion not said here	herbs			upon herbs = herb	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herb=Patient
5	wound		friend					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 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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