English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 8

The mother, when she handed the baby to Dame Goody to mind, gave her a box of ointment, and told her to stroke the baby's eyes with it as soon as it opened them.

Who acts: mother, box · What happens: hand, mind, give, tell, stroke, open · To what, where: baby, Dame, box, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, box), 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 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 handed	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 handed	nsubj
6	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handed	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Dame	case
10	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 handed	obl
11	Goody	Goody	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Dame	flat
12	to	to	PART	_	13 mind	mark
13	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 handed	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handed	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 box	det
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ointment	case
20	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 box	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handed	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stroke	mark
26	stroke	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 baby	det
28	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eyes	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 baby	case
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stroke	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stroke	obl
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 soon	advmod
34	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 stroke	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 opened	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 opened	nsubj
37	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 soon	advcl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 opened	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hand	past	the mother	the baby	Dame		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme to dame=Destination
2	mind	to-infinitive	the mother not said here				vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	give	past	the mother not said here	a box of ointment	Dame		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient box=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the mother not said here		Dame		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	stroke not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mother not said here	the baby's eyes		with ointment; soon property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Experiencer with it=Instrument
6	open	past	box	eyes = eye			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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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