The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 70
The moment Grannonia had rubbed the blood on his wounds the illness left him, and he was as sound and well as ever.
Who acts: illness, Prince · What happens: rub, leave, be, wound · To what, where: moment, wounds, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (illness, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | appos |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rubbed | aux |
| 5 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blood | det |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubbed | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 wounds | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rubbed | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 illness | det |
| 12 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wounds | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sound | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sound | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sound | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sound | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 sound | case |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubbed | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 well | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 sound | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 ever | case |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 well | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past · perfect · passive | the moment | Prince's wounds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the illness | Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | illness | as sound | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wound | Prince | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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