The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 25

He said: “O most enchanting sweetheart! it is the rule for the host to drink first and then the guest.”

Who acts: prince, wine · What happens: say, enchant, be, drink · To what, where: rule · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, wine), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 rule	punct
5	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	8 sweetheart	case
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 sweetheart	amod
7	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sweetheart	amod
8	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rule	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 sweetheart	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rule	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rule	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rule	det
13	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 host	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 host	det
16	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rule	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 drink	mark
18	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 host	acl
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 drink	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 guest	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 guest	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 guest	det
23	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rule	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rule	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 rule	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	enchant in a quote	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	present	wine	the rule and the guest	of most enchanting sweetheart; for the host	tree rules
4	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	wine not said here		first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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