The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 91

Then they oiled the corners of their mouths so that they might be able to speak more fluently.

Who acts: others · What happens: oil, be, speak · To what, where: corners · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 oiled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 oiled	nsubj
3	oiled	oil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corners	det
5	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 oiled	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouths	nmod:poss
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 corners	nmod
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 able	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 able	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 able	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 able	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 able	cop
14	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 oiled	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 able	xcomp
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 fluently	advmod
18	fluently	fluently	ADV	_	16 speak	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 oiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	oil	past	others = other	the corners of others's mouths	then		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent corner=Destination
2	is	might	others = other			able property	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	others = other not said here			fluently property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 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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