--- title: With this he anointed the ears, eyelids, nostrils, lips, and finger-… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: With this he anointed the ears, eyelids, nostrils, lips, and finger-tips, of the two brothers, and they sprang at once into life, and declared that their souls had been away, but had now returned. Who acts: King, brothers, souls. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/75/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/) / 75 # English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 75 With this he anointed the ears, eyelids, nostrils, lips, and finger-tips, of the two brothers, and they sprang at once into life, and declared that their souls had been away, but had now returned. **Who acts:** King, brothers, souls · **What happens:** anoint, sprang, declare, be, return · **To what, where:** ears, life This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, brothers, souls), 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:pg7439:24:75 # text = With this he anointed the ears, eyelids, nostrils, lips, and finger-tips, of the two brothers, and they sprang at once into life, and declared that their souls had been away, but had now returned. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 anointed anoint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sprang sprang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 obl _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 souls soul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 cop _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 44 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **anoint** | past | King | the ears and eyelids | | | | with this; finger tips and the two brothers *obl* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Destination with this=Theme | | 2 | **sprang** | present | brothers *= brother* | | | life | | | tree rules | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past · perfect | brothers's souls | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **return** | past · perfect | King *not said here* | | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/76/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)