The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 71

The King sent off for his physician in ordinary, who washed Jack all over with various essences and salves, so that he became white and was a remarkably handsome young man.

Who acts: King, Jack · What happens: send off, wash, become, be · To what, where: ordinary, Jack, handsome young man

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Jack), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 physician	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 physician	nmod:poss
7	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 ordinary	case
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 washed	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 washed	nsubj
12	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 washed	obj
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 over	advmod
15	over	over	ADV	_	12 washed	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 essences	case
17	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 essences	amod
18	essences	essence	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 washed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 salves	cc
20	salves	salve	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 essences	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 became	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 washed	conj
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 became	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 man	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 man	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
30	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	31 handsome	advmod
31	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 became	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send off	past	the King		ordinary	for King's physician	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ordinary=Destination
2	wash	past		Jack		with various essences and salves; over property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent jack=Patient with essence=Instrument
3	become	past	Jack			white property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is a	past	Jack not said here	a handsome young man			tree rules

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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