Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 145
Moisten my tongue--bring me a refreshing draught."
Who acts: you · What happens: moisten, bring, refresh · To what, where: tongue, refreshing draught, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Moisten | moisten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moisten | obj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Moisten | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 draught | det |
| 8 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 draught | amod |
| 9 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moisten | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moisten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moisten | imperative | you not said here | my tongue | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | a refreshing draught | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination draught=Theme | |||
| 3 | refresh | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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