The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 84
However, you may drink out of it, if you have a fancy."
Who acts: you · What happens: drink out, have · To what, where: ladyship, fancy
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 drink | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 drink | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 drink | aux |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drink | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drink | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fancy | det |
| 14 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drink | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink out | may | you | ladyship | however property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a fancy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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