More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 30

But he only just tasted the milk in the big saucer, which was so sour and so nasty that he would not taste another drop of it.

Who acts: Scrapefoot, big saucer · What happens: taste, be, not taste · To what, where: milk, big saucer, drop

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot, big saucer), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tasted	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tasted	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 tasted	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 tasted	advmod
5	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 milk	det
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasted	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 saucer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 saucer	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saucer	amod
11	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sour	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sour	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sour	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 sour	advmod
16	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saucer	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 nasty	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 nasty	advmod
19	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tasted	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 taste	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 taste	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 taste	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 taste	advmod
24	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 nasty	advcl
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 drop	det
26	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taste	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drop	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	taste	past	Scrapefoot	the milk	the big saucer		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent milk=Theme in saucer=Location
2	is	past	the big saucer			sour property	tree rules
3	not taste	would	Scrapefoot	another drop of drop			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme drop=Attribute

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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