--- title: ‘Well, the child I rubbed, sure enough; but my right eye began to sm… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, the child I rubbed, sure enough; but my right eye began to smart, and I put up my finger and gave it a rub, and then stared, for never in all my life was I so frightened. Who acts: child, right eye, I. 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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 (child, right eye, I), 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:pg3454:6:101 # text = ‘Well, the child I rubbed, sure enough; but my right eye began to smart, and I put up my finger and gave it a rub, and then stared, for never in all my life was I so frightened. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 enough enough ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 rub rub NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 36 for for SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 37 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 41 det:predet _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub** | past | the child | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **begin** | past | my right eye | | | | | smart *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **put up** | past | I | my finger | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal | | 4 | **give** | past | I *not said here* | bottle | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient rub=Theme | | 5 | **stare** | past | the child *not said here* | | | | then | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** | past | I | | | my life | | frightened *property* | tree rules | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/102/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/)