The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 120

He fell on his knees beside the body, and, taking out the salve, he rubbed it over the neck where the wound was gaping wide, and the skin healed and the sinews grew strong, and the dead man sat up and looked round him.

Who acts: brother, wound, skin, sinews, dead man · What happens: fall, take out, rub, gape, heal, grow · To what, where: knees, salve, neck

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, wound, skin, sinews), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taking	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taking	punct
12	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fell	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 taking	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 salve	det
15	salve	salve	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rubbed	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rubbed	nsubj
18	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rubbed	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 neck	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 neck	det
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rubbed	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 gaping	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wound	det
25	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gaping	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gaping	aux
27	gaping	gape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 neck	acl:relcl
28	wide	wide	ADV	_	27 gaping	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 healed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 healed	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 skin	det
32	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 healed	nsubj
33	healed	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grew	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sinews	det
36	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 healed	conj
38	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grew	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sat	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sat	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 man	det
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 man	amod
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sat	nsubj
44	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	parataxis
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 sat	compound:prt
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 looked	cc
47	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 sat	conj
48	round	round	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 looked	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	brother		brother's knees	beside the body	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	take out	gerund	brother not said here	the salve			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salve=Theme
3	rub	past	brother	salve	the neck		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over neck=Destination
4	gape	past · progressive	the wound			wide property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	heal	past	the skin				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	grow	past	the sinews			strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sit up	past	the dead man				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	look	past	the dead man not said here			round man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=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 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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