The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 44

She took a bottle, rubbed him from head to foot with something from it, and thereupon he was as sound as ever; but after what he had got that night he was very unwilling to try it a second time.

Who acts: Princess, daylight · What happens: take, rub, be, get, try · To what, where: bottle, daylight, foot, head

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, daylight), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bottle	det
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rubbed	punct
6	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rubbed	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 head	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbed	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 foot	case
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbed	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 something	case
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 foot	nmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 something	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sound	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sound	cc
18	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	22 sound	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sound	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sound	cop
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 sound	advmod
22	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rubbed	parataxis
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 ever	case
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 sound	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 what	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 what	cc
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 what	case
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 took	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 got	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 got	aux
31	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 what	acl:relcl
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 night	det
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	obl:unmarked
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 unwilling	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 unwilling	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 unwilling	advmod
37	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 got	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 try	mark
39	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 unwilling	csubj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 try	obj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 time	det
42	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	43 time	amod
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 try	obl:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Princess	a bottle					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme
2	rub	past	Princess not said here	daylight	foot with something	head			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to foot=Recipient
3	is	past	daylight					sound, thereupon property	tree rules
4	get	past · perfect	daylight				night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	daylight					unwilling property	tree rules
6	try	to-infinitive		bottle			time		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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