The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 50

“Perhaps I have to drink all that is in it before I can move the sword,” he thought; so he put it to his lips again and drank till it was quite empty.

Who acts: Niels, that, horn · What happens: have, drink, be, move, think, put · To what, where: horn, sword · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, that, horn), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det:predet
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 it	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 it	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drink	obj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 move	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 move	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 move	aux
15	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 drink	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sword	det
17	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 move	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 put	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	nsubj
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 lips	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lips	nmod:poss
29	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 put	obl
30	again	again	ADV	_	25 put	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 drank	cc
32	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 put	conj
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 empty	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 empty	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 empty	cop
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	37 empty	advmod
37	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 drank	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Niels				perhaps property	tree rules
2	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	Niels not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	that		horn			tree rules
4	move in a quote	can	Niels	the sword				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	Niels					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	put	past	Niels	horn		again	to Niels's lips	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
7	drink	past	Niels not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	horn				empty property	tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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