English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 11
So she took the box of ointment and stroked its two eyelids with it.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: take, stroke · To what, where: box, two eyelids
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ointment | case |
| 7 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stroked | cc |
| 9 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyelids | nmod:poss |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 eyelids | nummod |
| 12 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stroked | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stroked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Dame | the box of ointment | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stroke | past | Dame not said here | box's two eyelids | with box | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eyelid=Experiencer with it=Instrument |
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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