The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 26
He drank it to the last drop, and then took leave.
Who acts: puma · What happens: drink, take, leave · To what, where: bucket
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puma), 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 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drank | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 drop | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 drop | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 drop | amod |
| 7 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drank | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 took | advmod |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | conj |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 took | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | puma | bucket | to the last drop | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | puma not said here | then | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | puma not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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