The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 66
'We are very thirsty, please give us some milk!'
Who acts: We · What happens: be, give · To what, where: milk, us
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 5 thirsty | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 thirsty | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thirsty | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 thirsty | advmod |
| 5 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 8 give | discourse |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thirsty | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 milk | det |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thirsty | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thirsty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | We not said here | some milk | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient milk=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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