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title: She washed off the blood, bound up the injured foot with herbs, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She washed off the blood, bound up the injured foot with herbs, and said: ‘Now, dear, go and lie down and rest, so that your wound may heal.’ Who acts: sister, blood, wound, your. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 63

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She washed off the blood, bound up the injured foot with herbs, and said: ‘Now, dear, go and lie down and rest, so that your wound may heal.’

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**Who acts:** sister, blood, wound, your · **What happens:** wash off, bind up, say, go, lie down, rest · **To what, where:** blood, injured foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, blood, wound, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg540:10:63
# text = She washed off the blood, bound up the injured foot with herbs, and said: ‘Now, dear, go and lie down and rest, so that your wound may heal.’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	injured	injured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash off** | past | sister | the blood |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 2 | **bind up** | participle | the blood *not said here* | the injured foot |  |  |  | with herbs | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with herb=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lie down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rest** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **heal** | may | your wound |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **wound** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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