The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 109
'Every kind of drink will they offer you, but see you take none, save whey and water only.'
Who acts: lads, you · What happens: offer, see, take, save · To what, where: kind, you, none, whey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lads, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 offer | punct |
| 2 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 kind | det |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 drink | case |
| 5 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kind | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 offer | aux |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 offer | nsubj |
| 8 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 offer | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 offer | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | ccomp |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 save | punct |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 offer | conj |
| 18 | whey | whey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 save | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 water | cc |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whey | conj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 save | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 offer | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | future | lads = lad | every kind of drink | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal kind=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | lads = lad not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take | present | you | none | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | lads = lad not said here | whey and water | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whey=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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