More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 79

Thou must moisten it, lad, with a good drink, and then thou 'lt have a real all-over coat o' clay."

Who acts: Thou · What happens: moisten, have · To what, where: skin, real coat

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 moisten	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 moisten	aux
3	moisten	moisten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moisten	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lad	punct
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moisten	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drink	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 drink	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 drink	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 drink	amod
11	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moisten	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 have	advmod
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 have	nsubj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 lt	punct
17	lt	lt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thou	conj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moisten	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 coat	det
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coat	amod
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 coat	det
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 coat	case
24	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
25	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	27 clay	case
26	'	's	PART	_	27 clay	punct
27	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coat	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moisten	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 moisten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moisten	must	Thou	skin				lad vocative	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	have	present	thou	a real coat of clay			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=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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