--- title: Meanwhile she had bathed her arm carefully, and bound on it some hea… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile she had bathed her arm carefully, and bound on it some healing leaves that grew near by, and wrapped a cloth round the leaves, and went to hide in the forest, that her brother might not find her again. Who acts: sister, healing leaves, brother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, healing leaves, brother), 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:pg3454:20:91 # text = Meanwhile she had bathed her arm carefully, and bound on it some healing leaves that grew near by, and wrapped a cloth round the leaves, and went to hide in the forest, that her brother might not find her again. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 bathed bath VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 bound bind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 14 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 near near ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 wrapped wrap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 round round ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 again again ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bath** | past · perfect | sister | sister's arm | | | | carefully, meanwhile *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bind** | participle | sister *not said here* | some healing leaves | | blow | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | past | some healing leaves | | | | | near *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wrap** | past | sister *not said here* | a cloth | | | | round the leaves | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | sister *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **hide** | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* | | | the forest | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | | 7 | **not** **find** | might | sister's brother | sister | | | again | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/92/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/)