The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 96
“I will get some dried herbs and make you a drink, but I am very much afraid that it is too late.
Who acts: wife, drink · What happens: get, dry, make, be · To what, where: dried herbs, drink, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, drink), 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 herbs | det |
| 6 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 herbs | amod |
| 7 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 drink | det |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 afraid | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 afraid | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 afraid | advmod |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 late | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 late | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 late | cop |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 late | advmod |
| 24 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 afraid | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | future | the wife = wife | some dried herbs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herb=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dry in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | the wife = wife not said here | a drink | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary drink=Product | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the wife = wife | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | drink | late property | tree rules |
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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