The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 53

But the hare comforted him, and told him that he always carried with him an excellent plaster in case of need, which would bring him instant relief, and taking out his ointment he spread it on a leaf of bamboo, and laid it on the wound.

Who acts: hare, need, ointment · What happens: comfort, tell, carry, bring, take out, spread · To what, where: noise, hare, excellent plaster, case, instant relief, relief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, need, ointment), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 comforted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comforted	nsubj
4	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comforted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comforted	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 carried	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 carried	advmod
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	obl
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plaster	det
17	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plaster	amod
18	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 case	case
20	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plaster	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 need	case
22	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 case	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bring	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 bring	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bring	aux
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 need	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bring	obj
28	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 relief	amod
29	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bring	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 taking	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 taking	cc
32	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 comforted	advcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 taking	compound:prt
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ointment	nmod:poss
35	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spread	nsubj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 spread	nsubj
37	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 taking	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 spread	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 leaf	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 leaf	det
41	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spread	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 bamboo	case
43	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 leaf	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 laid	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 laid	cc
46	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comforted	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 laid	obj
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 wound	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 wound	det
50	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 laid	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	comfort	past	the hare	noise				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	the hare not said here		hare			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	carry	past	hare	a excellent plaster		case of need	with noise; always property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plaster=Value in case=Location
4	bring	would	need	instant relief	hare			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination relief=Theme
5	take out	gerund	the hare not said here					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	spread	past	hare's ointment	relief		a leaf of bamboo		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on leaf=Destination
7	lay	past	the hare not said here	relief		the wound		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on wound=Destination

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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