The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 41

‘My good friend,’ said the youth, ‘be of good cheer, for I can soon heal your leg,’ and with these words he poured some of the precious water over the wolf’s paw, and in a minute the animal was springing about sound and well on all fours.

Who acts: good friend, I, friend, animal · What happens: say, be, heal, pour, spring · To what, where: youth, leg, some, paw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good friend, I, friend, animal), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 friend	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 friend	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 friend	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cheer	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 cheer	punct
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 cheer	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 cheer	case
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cheer	amod
15	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heal	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 heal	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 heal	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 heal	aux
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 heal	advmod
21	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 leg	nmod:poss
23	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heal	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heal	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 heal	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 poured	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 words	case
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 words	det
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 poured	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 poured	nsubj
31	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 poured	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
35	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 water	amod
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 some	nmod
37	over	over	ADP	_	41 paw	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wolf	det
39	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 paw	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 wolf	case
41	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 poured	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 springing	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 springing	cc
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 minute	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 minute	det
46	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 springing	obl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 animal	det
48	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 springing	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 springing	aux
50	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 poured	advcl
51	about	about	ADP	_	52 sound	case
52	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 springing	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 fours	cc
54	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	57 fours	advmod
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 fours	case
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	57 fours	det
57	fours	four	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 sound	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My good friend	the youth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
2	is	infinitive					of good cheer	tree rules
3	heal	can	I	your leg			soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
4	pour	past	friend	some	the wolf's paw		with this words	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
5	spring	past · progressive	the animal			minute	about sound and all fours	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about sound=Trajectory

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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