English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 75
With this he anointed the ears, eyelids, nostrils, lips, and finger-tips, of the two brothers, and they sprang at once into life, and declared that their souls had been away, but had now returned.
Who acts: King, brothers, souls · What happens: anoint, sprang, declare, be, return · To what, where: ears, life
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, brothers, souls), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 anointed | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 anointed | nsubj |
| 4 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ears | det |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 anointed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eyelids | punct |
| 8 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ears | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nostrils | punct |
| 10 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ears | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lips | punct |
| 12 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 nostrils | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tips | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tips | cc |
| 15 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tips | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 finger | punct |
| 17 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 anointed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brothers | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 brothers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brothers | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 brothers | nummod |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tips | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sprang | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sprang | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sprang | nsubj |
| 26 | sprang | sprang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 anointed | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 sprang | obl |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sprang | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 declared | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 declared | cc |
| 33 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 anointed | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 away | mark |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 souls | nmod:poss |
| 36 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 away | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 away | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 away | cop |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 declared | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 returned | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 returned | cc |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 returned | aux |
| 43 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 returned | advmod |
| 44 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 anointed | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 anointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anoint | past | King | the ears and eyelids | with this; finger tips and the two brothers obl | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Destination with this=Theme | |||
| 2 | sprang | present | brothers = brother | life | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | King not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | brothers's souls | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | past · perfect | King not said here | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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