The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 78

‘I must be rubbed down morning and evening with rain water, my barley must be boiled in milk, because of my bad teeth, and my feet must be washed in oil.’

What happens: rub down, boil, wash · To what, where: I, barley, feet, oil

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	5 rubbed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 rubbed	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rubbed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 rubbed	aux:pass
5	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 rubbed	compound:prt
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rubbed	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 evening	cc
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 morning	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 water	compound
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 evening	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boiled	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 barley	nmod:poss
15	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boiled	nsubj:pass
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 boiled	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 boiled	aux:pass
18	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rubbed	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 milk	case
20	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boiled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 teeth	punct
22	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	26 teeth	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 because	fixed
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 teeth	nmod:poss
25	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 teeth	amod
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 boiled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 washed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 washed	cc
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 feet	nmod:poss
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 washed	nsubj:pass
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 washed	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 washed	aux:pass
33	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rubbed	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 oil	case
35	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 washed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rubbed	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub down	must · passive	I		morning		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	boil	must · passive	my barley			because my bad teeth; in milk	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in milk=Instrument
3	wash	must · passive	my feet	oil			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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