Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 50

"I have no water," said the captive lark, "they have all gone out, and forgotten to give me anything to drink.

Who acts: captive lark, boys · What happens: have, say, go out, forget, not give, drink · To what, where: water, anything, captive lark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captive lark, boys), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lark	det
10	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lark	amod
11	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gone	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 gone	advmod
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 gone	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forgotten	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 forgotten	cc
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 gone	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 forgotten	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 give	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 drink	mark
27	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 anything	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the captive lark = lark	no water			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the captive lark				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go out in a quote	present · perfect	boys = boy			all property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	forget in a quote	participle	boys = boy not said here				tree rules
5	not give in a quote	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here	anything	the captive lark = lark		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Theme
6	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here	anything not said here			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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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