The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 40
Give me a drink from the tree Koumongoé, which has the best milk in the world.”
Who acts: you, tree Koumongoé · What happens: give, have · To what, where: drink, me, tree Koumongoé, best milk, world
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tree Koumongoé), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drink | det |
| 4 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Koumongoé | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Koumongoé | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Koumongoé | compound |
| 8 | Koumongoé | Koumongoé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Koumongoé | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 milk | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 milk | amod |
| 14 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 milk | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a drink | me | the tree Koumongoé | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drink=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | present | the tree Koumongoé | the best milk | the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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