More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 31

She bargained as before; and the old wife, as before, took in the sleeping drink to the young knight's chamber; but he told her he couldn't drink it that night without sweetening.

Who acts: damsel, old wife, knight · What happens: bargain, take, tell, not drink, sweeten · To what, where: sleeping drink, damsel, chamber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel, old wife, knight), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bargained	nsubj
2	bargained	bargain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 before	case
4	before	before	ADV	_	2 bargained	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wife	amod
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 before	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 before	case
12	before	before	ADV	_	9 wife	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bargained	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 drink	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 drink	det
17	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 drink	amod
18	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	24 chamber	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 knight	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 knight	amod
22	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chamber	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 knight	case
24	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bargained	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 drink	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 drink	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 drink	advmod
33	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 drink	obj
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drink	obl:unmarked
37	without	without	SCONJ	_	38 sweetening	mark
38	sweetening	sweeten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 drink	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bargained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bargain	past	damsel						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the old wife			the sleeping drink		to the young knight's chamber result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to chamber=Result
3	tell speech: assert	past	knight		damsel				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not drink	could	knight	chamber			night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	sweeten	gerund	knight not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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