The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 26
So to make him lose his head, she drained the cup; then filled it again and gave him.
Who acts: prince, lady · What happens: make, lose, drain, fill, give · To what, where: prince, head, cup
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, lady), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 make | mark |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drained | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drained | nsubj |
| 10 | drained | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cup | det |
| 12 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drained | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 filled | advmod |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 filled | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 filled | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | infinitive | prince not said here | prince's head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | drain | past | lady | the cup | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cup=Source | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | cup | then; again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give | past | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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