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title: She fell on her knees before him and washed his wounds one by one, a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She fell on her knees before him and washed his wounds one by one, and laid healing herbs upon them. Who acts: Lion, friend. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 31

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She fell on her knees before him and washed his wounds one by one, and laid healing herbs upon them.

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**Who acts:** Lion, friend · **What happens:** fall, wash, lay, heal, wound · **To what, where:** knees, wounds, herbs

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Lion, friend), 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:pg5615:21:31
# text = She fell on her knees before him and washed his wounds one by one, and laid healing herbs upon them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Lion |  |  | Lion's knees | before friend |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
| 2 | **wash** | past | Lion *not said here* | friend's wounds |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | past | Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **heal** | gerund | Lion *not said here* | herbs |  |  |  | upon herbs *= herb* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herb=Patient |
| 5 | **wound** |  | friend |  |  |  |  |  | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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