--- title: As soon as it was quite hot she shook in the medicine that she had b… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as it was quite hot she shook in the medicine that she had brought from home, and then, taking the buffalo's head, she made incisions with her little knife behind the ear, and close to the temple where the shot had struck him. Who acts: water, girl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/21/104/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/21/) / 104 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 104 As soon as it was quite hot she shook in the medicine that she had brought from home, and then, taking the buffalo's head, she made incisions with her little knife behind the ear, and close to the temple where the shot had struck him. **Who acts:** water, girl · **What happens:** be, shake, bring, take, make, strike · **To what, where:** medicine, home, head, incisions, shot This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, girl), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:21:104 # text = As soon as it was quite hot she shook in the medicine that she had brought from home, and then, taking the buffalo's head, she made incisions with her little knife behind the ear, and close to the temple where the shot had struck him. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 buffalo buffalo NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 31 incisions incision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 behind behind ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 49 advmod _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 shot shot NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl:relcl _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | water | | | | | hot *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **shake** | past | girl | | | the medicine | | soon *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in medicine=Location | | 3 | **bring** | past · perfect | girl | | | home | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from home=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **take** | gerund | girl *not said here* | the buffalo's head | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | girl | incisions | | | | with girl's little knife behind the ear | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incision=Product | | 6 | **strike** | past · perfect · passive | | the shot | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient he=Result | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/21/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/21/105/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/21/)