The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 8

I cannot possibly muddy the water you are drinking up there.

Who acts: water · What happens: drink up

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 muddy	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 muddy	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 muddy	advmod
4	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	5 muddy	advmod
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drinking	nsubj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 drinking	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drinking	aux
10	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 muddy	advcl
11	up	up	ADV	_	12 there	advmod
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 drinking	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 muddy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink up	present · progressive	the water			there			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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