---
title: Then they daubed my face and hands with a sweet-smelling ointment, w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they daubed my face and hands with a sweet-smelling ointment, which in a few minutes removed all the smarts of the arrows. Who acts: tokens, smelling ointment, arrows. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/52/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/) / 52

# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 52

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then they daubed my face and hands with a sweet-smelling ointment, which in a few minutes removed all the smarts of the arrows.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** tokens, smelling ointment, arrows · **What happens:** daub, smell, remove, smart · **To what, where:** face, smarts

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tokens, smelling ointment, arrows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg503:43:52
# text = Then they daubed my face and hands with a sweet-smelling ointment, which in a few minutes removed all the smarts of the arrows.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	daubed	daub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	amod	_	_
13	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
20	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	smarts	smart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **daub** | past | tokens *= token* | my face and hands |  |  | then | with a smelling ointment | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with ointment=Theme |
| 2 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remove** | participle | a smelling ointment | all smarts of the arrows |  |  | minute |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smart=Theme |
| 4 | **smart** |  | the arrows |  |  |  |  |  | nom smart «state intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/51/)
- next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/53/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/)